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

To: md1derful who wrote (5701)	5/18/2000 4:04:00 PM
From: md1derful	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 9127

The thing that really got my goat was Maxine Waters getting her nose all bent out of shape over this...saying to Larry King in response to the query..should a german child go back to Nazi germany: "Of course" was her reply.... amazing from our elected officials, but then again she's from California...I may also add this was said one day before her constituency shot up the National Zoo...boy you could hear a pin drop from her camp...talk about getting one's own house in order first....the Cubans displayed far more class than Ms Water's ilk doc

To: md1derful who wrote (5701)	5/18/2000 4:40:00 PM
From: Rambi	Respond to of 9127

I agree that the family didn't start things of their own initiative; I think they were used terribly, though willingly. We're not talking a sophisticated bunch of people here. Castro manipulated the situation brilliantly, and the Miami Cubans tried to do the same thing (not as successfully).

To: md1derful who wrote (5701)	5/18/2000 6:07:00 PM
From: marcos	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9127

doc, as i recall it was the exile lobby groups, starting with CANF, who first made bellicose statements about keeping Eli n in the US no matter what ... they were at the time protesting Cuba's attendance at the WTO meeting in Seattle ... they made use of the boy very early after his landing, two or three days i think ... within a week Juan Miguel was turning down offers from a lawyer ostensibly working for the Miami relatives. Castro couldn't have made anything of it if the ex-cubanos had not first made the threat.