Immigration and Naturalization Service Commissioner Doris Meissner speaks to the press about 6-year-old Elian Gonzalez at a news conference in Washington, January 5. The United States said on Wednesday that Gonzalez, a Cuban boy who survived an ill-fated migrant smuggling trip to Florida, should be reunited with his father in the communist-ruled island rather than start a new life with relatives in the United States.

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