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Elian Gonzalez Case Coming to a Head

HeadlineApr 13, 2000

The Elian Gonzalez case is coming to a head. Attorney General Janet Reno has ordered the child’s Miami relatives to take the boy to a Florida airport today so he can be flown to Washington for a reunion with his dad. But the six-year-old’s great-uncle, Lazaro Gonzalez, says he will not turn the child over. After meeting with Reno for more than two hours yesterday, he said Elian would have to be taken by force. Outside his Miami home early today, a crowd of demonstrators cheered Gonzalez, who said of the meeting, “They didn’t want to listen to us.” Someone shouted, “We’re with you ’til death!” Reno says she regrets Gonzalez’s statements that he won’t turn Elian over. She says it’s up to the Miami relatives to make sure the transfer of custody happens in the “best and least traumatic way.”

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