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Politics : About that Cuban boy, Elian -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Harry_Behemoth who wrote (2964)	4/26/2000 6:27:00 PM
From: Harry_Behemoth	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 9127

Here's the NY Times story: April 23, 2000 CRITIC'S NOTEBOOK Pictures Tell 2 Versions of the Story, as Planned By CARYN JAMES It was unintentional that a still photograph became an instant icon of the television-driven saga of Eli n Gonz lez. The photograph of a federal agent in riot gear, a gun pointed in the direction of the little boy in the arms of the man who had rescued him from the sea, was shown and discussed all day, rarely mentioned without the words "searing" or "chilling" attached. And though the photograph demonstrates the power of a single dramatic image, the Gonz lez family intended for the taking of Eli n to be televised live. "We got Maced, we got kicked, we got roughed up" by federal agents, Tony Zumbado, an NBC cameraman, told his colleagues on the air yesterday afternoon, explaining why his pictures never materialized. Mr. Zumbado and an NBC sound person, who were providing the pool coverage to be shared by all the networks and cable channels, entered the house alongside Alan Diaz, the Associated Press photographer who took the central image. Over the previous 10 days, the family had flip-flopped about whether to invite a camera inside if federal officials arrived. Late Friday afternoon, they consented. As Mr. Zumbado described the events, he and Mr. Diaz essentially raced the federal agents to the door. A family member was pulling him into the house while a federal agent was pulling him out, Mr. Zumbado said. When he got inside he was kicked in the stomach and landed on the floor; by the time he recovered, he said, the three-minute raid was over. <truncated here>