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The Cuban-American community made Elián’s case a crusade, saying that his mother had died trying to bring her son to freedom and it would be wrong to send him back to Castro’s dictatorship. It wasn’t true. Craig Smith took over the political director’s job, the same position he had had in the 1992 campaign. “Man of the Year,” saying that I had been given the opportunity “to preside over one of the periodic reinvent

ising out of his official actions while President because the defense would be too distracting and time-consuming. I had run a state government and seen the human consequences of cuts in federal services. The passport story dragged out all month. I said that while we had not yet resolved the tunnel issue, both sides had agreed to begin immediate talks in the region with a view toward ending the violence and returning to the peace process.