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

To: Jacques Chitte who wrote (7439)	6/12/2000 2:11:00 PM
From: jhild	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9127

And now a word from our sponsors: Cuba Mobilizes Massive Children's March Over Elian By Andrew Cawthorne HAVANA (Reuters) - Led by Elian Gonzalez's classmates, tens of thousands of Cuban youngsters marched on the U.S. diplomatic mission in another state-organized rally on Monday to demand the 6 year-old castaway's return. ``End the abuse! Free Elian!'' chanted the estimated 200,000 children, as they filed along Havana's seafront Malecon boulevard and past the U.S. Interests Section building. The march, prompted by Cuba's frustration at Elian's retention in the United States against his father's will for more than six months, was meticulously run and shown live across the island's state media. The rally is the latest demonstration of Cuba's support for Elian's father, Juan Miguel Gonzalez, who is feuding with Miami relatives backed by Castro's arch-enemies in Florida's anti-Communist Cuban American groups. Monday's demonstration came, paradoxically, at a time of unprecedented rapprochement between Cuba and U.S. businessmen, who have been visiting the communist-run island in growing numbers and are spearheading a lobby to end Washington's economic embargo. Just last week, President Fidel Castro chatted with a visiting delegation of 60 U.S. business executives. U.S. wheat sellers were also in town exploring export potential if the embargo restrictions are eased. The U.S. Congress is currently debating a bipartisan proposal to allow U.S. food and medicine sales to Cuba in what would be a significant easing of the sanctions, applied four decades ago in a bid to oust the communist leadership. Elian was rescued at sea in November after his boat capsized, killing his mother and 10 other illegal Cuban migrants. Juan Miguel Gonzalez, a tourism worker from the provincial town of Cardenas, has demanded his son's return from the start and was reunited with him in Washington in April after a dramatic raid on the Miami house of the boy's U.S. relatives. Following various U.S. court decisions in favor of Elian's father, the pair are currently in Washington, under a court order not to leave the United States and awaiting final appeal moves by the Miami family. At Monday's march, the youngsters, bused in since before dawn from schools and neighborhoods in Havana and surrounding provinces, cheered noisily, and wore the red, white and blue uniforms of Cuba's state-affiliated school movements. Joined by Castro, several thousand crowded a special ''anti-imperialist'' stage, built several months ago opposite the U.S. building, to deliver patriotic speeches and denounce the ``kidnapping'' of Elian. ``Let the whole world know, Elian is coming home!'' cried one young boy in his speech. ``Elian belongs to us, to our fatherland, not to the kidnappers, not to the mafia!'' The children's vocabulary mirrored speeches by Castro, who has labeled the Cuban American groups backing Elian's Miami relatives an unscrupulous group of ``mafia'' and ``kidnappers'' intent on harming his government by any means. The saga has, analysts say, dimmed the political influence of the Cuban American community in Florida, and thus played into the hands of the anti-embargo lobby in Washington and, of course, in Havana. Castro, who has personally run a campaign over Elian unprecedented in his 41-year rule, sent a special message Monday to the marching children. ``A word of advice from a former child and former guerrilla -- take care to preserve our record. Don't throw even a single paper or cloth ball at that building you are marching past,'' Castro told the children, alluding to the peaceful nature of the numerous rallies at the U.S. building in recent months. ``As a question of honor, 1,500 schoolchildren are guarding it. So, march with great dignity -- your scarves and flags on high, your strong and energetic shouts heard in Washington and the rest of the world -- because no one has the right to kidnap or retain a Cuban boy,'' Castro added. dailynews.yahoo.com

To: Jacques Chitte who wrote (7439)	6/12/2000 2:49:00 PM
From: TigerPaw	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9127

evidence can be trellised to point in either direction with equal ease. The last hiding place for a magical being was disproved recently with the discovery that the universe is flat (and consequently there is no "other" universe where a magical being may be influencing it). Magical creative beings are disproved within the universe by information flow. The type of control necessary to create an earth with intelligent creatures would leave a non-random residual effect. As with science there is always an IF. In this case it is If there really is a universe. Nothing I know of yet disproves nihlism, that is to say our universe could be a simulation or the dream of a butterfly. TP