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>> if it comes to taking elian by force, u.s. law enforcement officials have a plan. >> elements of the marshall s.w.a.t. like special operations group are available. the 11-member miami police department and the florida highway patrol has played units on alert. the final go or no go order will come only from attorney general janet reno. >> instead of discussing how elian should be reunited, the attorneys for the relatives continued to demand that we revisit the issue of whether elian should be ...

Was even inside the home. he was not being brought out by family members, he didnt make appearances into the crowds. the less we saw of him, the more concern we had had as to his welfare. if it comes to takg elian by officials have a plan.ement >> elements of the martial s.w.a.t.-like special operations group is available. and the florida highway patrol has placed units on alert. the final go or no go order will come only from attorney general, janet reno. >> instead of discussing howellian shou...

Where i think we may have left the show and gone to the hospital because she really took a beating, emotional beating from that process. >> it it was a loving family. they got caught up in the collective hysteria. this was the battle against castro. >> what people saw in the elian story often depended on where they stood. as the weeks passed, national polls showed a deep divide with more and more americans outside south florida in favor of returning the boy to his father. but in miami the exiles...

Back. it was always supposed to be elians story although a lot of other people would try and make it their own. >> the first thing that came to my mind how did he survive by himself when hes only five. i can only say its just a miracle. god wanted him here for freedom and hes here and he will get it. >> i never forget. he was sitting there. he was about to have soup. the first thing i said was dont eat that. he looked straight up at me and hes like is it bad? i said yes dont eat that. well get y...

And boyfriend took elian away on a boat hoping to start their lives over in the united states. frantic to find them juan miguel and his parents began calling relatives in miami. almost from the start the two families were talking past each other. [ speaking foreign language ] >> i remember my dad saying that you know when miguel says to take care of him so he could come over here. in the beginning of everything i had a picture he was going to come and stay. i was like, wow, my whole family is go...

Seconds that i knew. the cuban national foundation were not only trying to brain wash me, they wanted to look like that once we got there that juan miguel refused to meet us. >> say the news conference is going to be in about five minutes. i would recommend since weve been going all cuban all the time, that we take it. >> hello. would you like a spelling for that? >> yes, please. >> if i have to get on my knees, i will get on my knees for this man because i love this boy. >> juan miguel said he ...

Day one the due process of elian gonzalez. >> with help from jorge the family tried to go around the immigration service. >> we thought the best way to make sure the judicial process was followed by the subpoena. >> this is a federal subpoena which we believe protects elian gonzalez from being forcibly and illegal removed from the united states to cuba. >> in miami people celebrated the subpoena which orders little elian to appear before u.s. congress in an order to delay his return to cuba. >> ...

Children. >> we must reflect how we, as a society, can prevent in the future such a horrible, tragic, senseless loss of life. >> janet reno was somebody who made her decisions based on the facts and the law. >> instead of discussing how elian should be united, they continue to demand that we revisit the issue of whether elian should be reunited. that is not what the law provides. >> reporter: demonstrators break through those barricades to try to form a human chain in front of this house if fede...

Dont say you came here with no violence and this boy is okay. how can this boy be okay when he had a gun at his head? >> expressing her feelings on what happened, describing what happened this morning. >> they treat us like criminals. they broke -- they broke elians bed. >> he was saying ca posau, capasa i just kept holding his head like this. america, what did you do to this boy? >> thank you very much. >> up until the last, we tried every way we could to encourage gonzales to voluntarily hand ...

Its like -- you people have no -- you dont have a clue about what being in a free society is. you have no respect for other peoples opinions. >> you dont know what happened to him. >> i, by now, had seen the anger in miami, the determination by snof miami cubans to make sure that elian did not leave. senator lehigh came to me and said were going to get that little boy back to his father and im going to help you but youre never going to make it happen if you dont involve a lawyer in this. i have ...