Section A·Page 7
The University Daily Kansan
Wednesday, January 26, 2000
Nation/World
Grandmothers set to see Elian
Justice department requires boy's family to allow a meeting
The Associated Press
Elian
WASHINGTON — Elian Gonzalez's Florida relatives must make the boy available for a meeting with his Cuban grandmothers today at a neutral site, the Justice Department ruled yesterday. The grandmothers pressed their insistence for the boy's return and pleaded with Congress not to force U.S. citizenship upon him.
"He is only a 6-year-old boy. And he's a Cuban," said Mariela Quintana, the child's paternal grandmother, after a meeting with lawmakers. President Clinton said he would not rule out a veto if Congress passed the citizenship bill.
The meeting is only a visit and does not change the boy's status.
said the letter signed by Michael A. Pearson, executive associate immigration commissioner for field operations.
The INS has ruled that the boy
The IAP has should be returned to his father in Cuba. Elian. Florida relatives have challenged that order in federal court.
"I have everybody's word that the child will not be taken a way," O'Laughlin
Gonzalez: Will meet with grand mothers soon.
said. "I wouldn't participate if that was the case."
Carol Fouke, a spokeswoman for the National Council of Churches, which sponsored the grandmothers' trip, applauded the order for today's meeting.
"The only one who has a legal
right with that child is his father," Quintana said.
Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, D-Texas, said after her meeting with the grandmothers that she had asked Clinton to fight the citizenship legislation, even if it meant he had to veto it. "Elian Gonzalez is not an orphan," she said.
The grandmothers brought with them a photo album and displayed a page with an enlarged picture of Elan's Cuban family — minus Ellian.
Suggesting the picture showed how much Elian was missed, Raquel Rodriguez, Elian's maternal grandmother, said that after losing her daughter in the boat disaster, having U.S. citizenship forced upon Elian would be more painful and prolong the agony.
"I have no one else," she said, tears streaming down her face.
At the White House, Clinton urged Congress to delay action until the issue had played out in court and to think first about what was right for the child.
U.S. crackdown on terrorism precarious
The Associated Press
Pakistan
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan Afghanistan's ruling Taliban and the hard-line leaders of Pakistan have rebuffed U.S. appeals to crack down on terrorism, and one militant group warned yesterday of a violent backlash if they tried.
On a visit to the region last week, a top American envoy urged the outlawing of a group blamed for hijacking an Indian plane last month and that steps also be taken to bring terror suspect Osama bin Laden to justice.
pakistan response undercuts U.S. public rejection of India's charges that Pakistan had a hand in the hijacking and attacks aimed at India. And in neighboring Afghanistan, Taliban leaders have refused to give up bin Laden, charged in the United States with masterminding the 1998 deadly bombings of U.S. embassies in
Kenya and Tanzania.
Of particular concern to the United States is Harkat ul-Mujahedeen, the successor to a Pakistani-based organization that has been declared a terrorist group by Washington.
A representative for a sister organization, Harkat kul-ujhad, warned of violence if the government tried to close the group's offices in Pakistan.
"We will not hesitate to take any action, and believe me, there will be a free-for-all here in Pakistan. It will be anarchy," Abu Mahmood Ashraf said. He added that his group trained in Pakistan and Afghanistan to fight in Kashmir — the flash point of two wars between India and Pakistan — and in other Muslim countries where Muslims were being attacked.
Ashraf also called bin Laden a hero to Muslims worldwide. "Any injury or his death would be a great shock to us, and we would not stop until we have severely punished the United
States." he said.
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Bin Laden: Charged with terrorism by the United States.
for trial. Taliban leaders had met with Inderfurth, but said leaders didn't want to have further discussions with the United States.
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