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To: Les H who wrote (9931)	8/10/2000 9:20:42 AM
From: LLCF	Respond to of 436258

<Not until after Cuban dictator Fidel Castro demanded the boy’s return — and a full five days after his son’s whereabouts were known — did Elian’s father step forward to ask for his son’s return. This key fact was ignored by the mainstream press. But it demanded answers: Why would a father wait five days to demand his son’s return? Why had he changed his mind? Why did Castro speak for the child first?> Ho ho... can you imagine if the U.S. legal system started the wheels turning to debate this kind of thing legally?? "You say you want your boy back NOW, but why did you come foreward 5 days later?" <A curious reporter for the Wall Street Journal’s editorial page (not its news section), James Taranto, traveled to Miami to talk to Cuban-American immigrants about the mental stresses of living in Cuba. What he found raised serious doubts about Juan Miguel’s state of mind.> Ho ho... what a circus that would have been. Luckily people go with their instinct... DAK