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Elian’s father requests visa by Alex Veiga The Associated Press Miami — Elian Gonzalez’s father asked for a visa Thursday to come to the United States and take the boy back to Cuba, as dozens of anti-Castro activists linked arms outside the 6-year-old’s Mi ami home, practicing resistance tech niques. * Discussions between immigration of ficials and the boy’s Miami relatives, meanwhile, ended Thursday evening with out a resolution. The talks were set to re sume Monday, Immigration and Natu ralization Service officials said. U.S. immigration officials have de manded that the boy’s Miami relatives promise in writing to turn over the boy if they lose in court. The INS had warned that it would revoke Elian’s right to stay in the United States unless the relatives signed. But after the meeting, the INS pushed back the deadline for a second time to at least Tuesday. The Justice Department and the INS hoped “to continue to move forward on Monday,” said Robert Wallis, INS di rector for the Miami district. “Like the family, we are monitoring developments concerning the possible arrival of (Elian’s father) Juan Miguel Gonzalez in the Unit ed States,” he said. In Washington, a Justice Department official, requesting anonymity, said that the agreement contained a third clause that would allow INS to end great-un cle Lazaro Gonzalez’s temporary cus tody of the boy if a major development occurs in the case, “including his father’s coming to the United States.” The attempt to get a visa for Elian’s father hit a procedural snag, however. The father’s lawyer asked the State De partment for a visa, only to be told that applications must be submitted to the U.S. diplomatic mission in Havana. “The only person that has the legal and moral authority to speak for Elian Gonzalez is his father,” Gregory Craig, an American lawyer for Juan Miguel Gon zalez, said in Washington. “Juan Miguel Gonzalez is ready at a moment’s notice to come to the United States.” Craig said he asked the Immigration and Naturalization Service to allow the boy’s father and other Cuban relatives to stay as long as it takes to complete the appeals process. A federal appeals court in Atlanta has scheduled the case for May 11. On the street in front of the house in Miami’s Little Havana neighborhood where Elian has been staying with his great-uncle, dozens of demonstrators linked arms and formed two rows. “We will not let Elian’s civil rights be violated,” said Ramon Saul Sanchez, head of the Democracy Movement, an anti-Castro group. Sanchez instructed the demonstrators on nonviolent protest, telling them that if the police arrive, they should remain seated and hold out their fists if they were to be handcuffed. Over the past few days, demonstra tors have promised to lay down their lives to prevent Elian from being taken away. In another development, Vice Pres Euan seepages ‘Juan Miguel Gonzalez is ready at a moment's notice to come to the United States.' Gregory Craig Lawyer for Juan Miguel Gonzalez 'Disconnect' on e-mails, -v. White House counsel says by Pete Yost The Associated Press Washington — White House counsel Beth Nolan said Thursday there was a “disconnect” in the White House e-mail controversy, with computer specialists aware of a widespread problem in 1998 while presidential lawyers were not. •- The “technical people knew” many e-mails were not being archived so that they could be searched for possible turnover to various investigations, Nolan told the House Government Reform Com mittee. “There is Absolutely no question there was a disconnect” with the White House counsel’s office being aware of a “glitch” but no major problem, Nolan said under questioning by committee Chief Coun sel Jim Wilson. Nolan revealed that the White House lawyers’ point of contact about the “glitch” was presidential aide Mark Lind say. Lindsay has been accused by a White House contract employee, Betty Lam buth, of threatening her with jail unless she kept quiet about the e-mail problem. Lindsay denies threatening employees, but says he did ask them to keep quiet because he did not want a lot of office gossip on the subject. Nolan said that Lindsay and then counsel Charles F.C. Ruff discussed what Ruff thought was a narrowly defined com puter problem that was quickly being solved. Nolan said that the White House dou ble-checked in order to be certain that all e-mails relating to Monica Lewin sky were being produced to investigators. When that check was completed and no new e-mails were found, the coun sel’s office thought the problem was tak en care of, said Nolan. “For the White House to say that there was a disconnect is flatly false,” committee spokesman Mark Corallo said after the hearing. “There was ample evidence of a widespread problem in the form of a memo to the deputy chief of staff. 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A majority of the assembly’s 626 members have said they will vote in April for a much wider probe of the spy netowrk, known as Echelon. “Unfortunately a great deal of questions have not been answered,” Maria Berger, an Austrian socialist, said during the debate. The Echelon issue surfaced last month, when a parliament-commissioned report described a spy network comprised of surveillance-interception stations across the globe. The stations listen in and in tercept “billions of messages per hour,” including telephone calls, fax trans missions and private e-mails, the report said. It has caused outrage among many Europeans. ■ Pentagon official’s lawyer Judge should recuse himself Washington (AP)—The judge who ruled this week that President Clinton committed a crime is being asked by Pen tagon spokesman Ken Bacon to remove himself from a lawsuit filed by Linda Tripp on the grounds that the judge is biased. 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