Editorial: A boy, not a symbol
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...Gore's willingness to abandon the policies of his manager...
...In that light, it is imRothco...
...Why the threats of violence and civil disruption if Elian is reChristmas/New Year's...
...arguing that Castro must be opposed in every way possible...
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...Microfilm both cultivated this resentment and frustrated it...
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...Yves Congar, Dialogue between Christians, trans...
...In a certain sense this is true, but the order in which Saint Paul puts it reveals a more profound truth...
...columnist exile community...
...Miami-Dade Mayor Alex Penelas, could pander to the most extreme elements in the p. 12, Cork...
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...Op- Saint Paul: 'Patience breeds hope' (Romans 5:4...
...Equally obvious, however, is that Elian should E T CETERA not be deprived of his father if his father chooses to return to Cuba...
...4, 30, Valerry...
...p. 24, David Lee...
...0 crux benedicta...
...p. 17, Baloo, Rothco...
...The cross is a condition of every holy work...
...p. 28, Charlot...
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...The United States government is not in the business of Easter hope "I have often thought of the words of separating parents and children for political reasons...
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...Com- ly explosive situation in Miami shows, Castro is not ancient history, nor is the monweal articles also are available at many libraries and research facilities on CD-ROM and battle against communism over, for many who consider themselves still "in exile...
...is not hard to understand the passions surrounding the child's fate...
...other parts of the easy to dispute the community's conviction that under Castro Elian's father is world, $99...
...Coercive pressure from the exile comtions must be paid in U.S...
...The business manager works with the staff on a wide variety of tasks...
...Serials Data program Elian's near miraculous survival has become a symbol of all that the first-genNo.: ISSN 0010-3330...
...What must bank...
...If this patience is that of the sower, it is necessarily accompanied by a cross...
...be disputed, however, is whether or not resisting Castro requires that Elian be Illustrations: Cover design & art: forcibly kept from a father who loves and wants him...
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...with his son...
...wait patiently because he had hope in his heart...
...One would posing Castro does not justify keeping this child from his have thought that it was just the reverse, that a man could father...
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...As we go to press, Elian's father, accompanied by his cur- These include budgeting and finance, marketing and promotion, circulation, fund-raising, development, and general business matters, as well as surent wife and their child, has come to the United States to re- pervising the business staff...
...p. 8, possible to understand how public officials, such as Vice President Al Gore and Joke, Rothco...
...People who are in too much of a hurry, who wish to grasp the object of their desires immediately, are also incapable of it...
...Nothing is meant wholly seriously unless we are prepared to pay the price it demands...
...Commonweal, 475 Riverside Dr., Room 405, A good number of Cuban Americans oppose any normalization of relations, New York, NY 10115...
...Those who sow in sorrow, reap in shouts of joy' (Psalm 126:5), but sometimes they do not reap at all, for 'one sows and another reaps' (John 4:37...
...Portland, ME 04106 peaceful will be the post-Castro transformation of Cuba...
...Today, most Americans see Fidel Castro, Cuba's ComIntern: Christopher Ruddy munist dictator, and his dilapidated island as more of a historical cuI Circulation Manager: Sandra Smith riosity than a threat to American security or world peace...
...E-mail: tively, the normalization of diplomatic relations with Cuba...
...Interested applicants should send a resume and a letter describing his clear," Reno stated...
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...and monthly July and turned, as the law stipulates he must be, to his parent...
...migration and Naturalization Service (INS...
...Four-day workweek...
...eration exile community has sacrificed and all that it hopes for...
...No peaceful resolution of this crisis is possible if commitment to the rule of law pp...
...INS ruling and return the boy to his father...
...STAFF Editor: Margaret O'Brien Steinfels Executive Editor: Paul Baumann Managing Editor: Patrick Jordan Associate Editor: Daria Donnelly Production Editor: Tiina Aleman Senior Writer: Robert G. Hoyt Editorial Assistant: Maurice Timothy Reidy Copy Editor: Susanne Washburn Business Manager: Gregory Wilpert A boy, not a symbol Poetry: Rosemary Deen Stage/Media: Celia Wren Columnists: John Garvey, E.J...
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...Castro has clearly been stage-managing the father's actions, if not his opinions...
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...A child who has lost his mother be- or her qualifications and acquaintance, if any, with the magazine...
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...Those who do not know how to suffer, do not know how to hope either...
...Previous cial Cuban American vote confirmed what many of his long- experience with a magazine, small business, and/or nonprofit organizatime critics have said: that he seems willing to do almost tion is a plus...
...Doubts that Mr...
...Coventry Patmore has said that to the man who waits all things reveal themselves, provided that he has the courage not to deny in the darkness what he has seen in the light...
...anything to get elected president...
...Attorney General Reno, who has has recently been computerized: accounting and financial records are shown a calm but firm attitude throughout this crisis, is maintained on QuickBooks and our in-house circulation system uses the now pressing Elian's Miami relatives to comply with the NexTech system (training will be provided if applicant can begin by July 3...
...respected...
...Historically, official U.S...
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...6, 20, 23, Ross, is sacrificed on the putatively higher altar of anti-Castroism...
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...Much of the office gain custody of his son...
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...1, 1924, to current issues available through University Microfilm, 300 N. Zeeb anti-Castro cause has seemed anachronistic to many Americans, and increasingRoad, Ann Arbor, MI 48106 and on Microfiche ly to many second- and third-generation Cuban Americans...
...POSTMASTER: send address changes to specting the custody claims of Elian's father...
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...God himself is at work in what to us seems a cross...
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...The patient sower, who entrusts his seed to the earth and the sun, is also the man of hope...
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