Elian set to go home

By Sridhar Krishnaswami

OTTAWA, JUNE 28. The United States Supreme Court today refused to hear the asylum case of Elian Gonzalez which means that the Cuban lad is finally set to go home later in the day. The Court refused any further extension of stay of Elian in this country.

The Supreme Court's decision brings to an end a seven-month drama ever since Elian was rescued in a shipwreck on Thanksgiving Day last year in which his mother died.

Last week the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta unanimously rejected the asylum case and basically held the view that unless the Supreme Court issued an injunction, Elian and his father, Mr. Juan Miguel Gonzalez, would be free to leave the U.S. after 4 p.m. on Wednesday.

The Clinton administration, which has all along maintained that Elian belonged to his father, is said to be relieved at the Court decision.

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