| The Encyclopedia of World History. 2001. |
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| 2000, June 28 |
| | | After seven months of deliberation, the U.S. government rejected the pleas of members of the U.S. Cuban community that six-year-old Elian Gonzalez be granted refugee status. The government's order that the boy be returned to his father in Cuba ended a legal battle that began with the child's rescue after his fleeing mother died in a shipwreck off the coast of Florida. | 1 |
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| The Encyclopedia of World History, Sixth
edition. Peter N. Stearns, general editor. Copyright © 2001 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Maps by Mary Reilly, copyright © 2001 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. |
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