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MIAMI (AP) — Elian Gonzalez’s grandmothers flew to
iami on Monday in hopes of meeting with their 6-year-old
andson before they return to Cuba, but the women left
wn without seeing the boy because of a dispute over the
sjte of the get-together.
The boy’s maternal grandmother, Raquel Rodriguez, and
Bitemal grandmother, Mariela Quintana,
nunned an invitation to have dinner Mon-
dpy night at the home of Elian’s relatives
in Miami, who insisted the meeting take
place there.
I The grandmothers w anted to meet pri-
Ktely w ith Elian at a neutral site. Alter lly-
Hg in from New York, they spent about five
Bnirs at the airport before departing for
VLishington.
I Some of Elian’s Miami relatives were
planning to travel to Washington as well.
I The grandmothers left Miami while a group including
Elian’s two great-uncles and Rodriguez’s sister were heading
to meet the women at the airport. They did not bring Elian
along, and Spencer 1 ig, an attorney for the Miami relatives.
Stud they were told the grandmothers had no interest in meet
ing w ith the great-uncles.
I “Elian is disappointed,” Eig said. “1 know the grand-
nu’thers are disappointed. The situation is heartbreaking for
tiu Gonzalezes.”
I The Rev. Bob Edgar, general secretary of the National Coun
cil of Churches, who sponsored the women’s trip, said the grand
mothers were scared to come to Miami because of protests by
GONZALEZ
Cuban-Americans who want Elian to stay in the United States.
“They were frightened. They see the thousands of people here
in Miami marching and protesting and you can imagine as very
simple, loving, caring grandparents that they would be frightened
to come,” Edgar said.
Edgar said the women were willing to return to Miami, or go
anywhere else, to meet with Elian as long as there is agreement
on a neutral location for a visit.
The Miami relatives have been caring for Elian since he was
found clinging to an inner tube off the Florida coast on Nov. 25.
His mother and 10 other Cubans died in their ill-fated attempt to
reach the United States.
The Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) has
ruled that Elian must be sent back to Cuba to live with his fa
ther, but the Miami family is suing in federal court to block the
boy’s return.
In a letter to the INS, an attorney for the Miami family said a
dinner at the home of Lazaro Gonzalez—Quintana’s brother-in-
law and Elian’s great-uncle — would let the grandmothers “see
and feel for themselves how well Elian is doing and how much
he wishes to remain in the United States.”
Elian had spoken by telephone with his father in Cuba and
was excited as he prepared for his grandmothers’ arrival, family
spokesperson Armando Gutierrez said. The family had bought
cameras so Elian could take pictures of his grandmothers, the
spokesperson said.
Gutierrez said the family would only allow the meeting to take
place at the home.
“This is where they live. This is where Elian lives,” Gutier
rez said. “No budging on that.”
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ALLEGAN. Mich. (AP) — A fa-
■her who went nose-to-nose with his
Ison’s high school basketball coach in
la dispute over his shouting directions
■from the bleachers has been banned
■from school grounds and road games.
The school board decision Mon-
Iday to discipline Sam Grigg has split
■the Allegan High School team. Some
■players are writing Grigg’s initials on
■their shoes, while others are writing
■hose of the coach, Marty Martins.
According to witnesses, Grigg was
■shouting encouragement and direction
ito his son, Shawn, during a Jan. 7 road
game when Martins told Shawn to
^top looking into the stands or risk be
ing benched.
H After the game, (irigg approached
AJartins and an argument broke out.
IMartins, a 6-foot-4 former football
player, pointed his finger close to the
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■coach’s hand away, The Grand Rapids
jgPress reported Tuesday. Superinten-
Ident John Van Nieuwenhuyzen said
Grigg gave them no choice.
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the part of the coach that required
physical confrontation. It’s totally im
permissible,” he said.
Grigg said Monday: “I feel sor
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I’d love to see me and Mr. Martins
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were before. 1 want to see my son
play ball.”
CHICAGO (AP) — A study of
113,000 heart attack victims found that
people with mental illnesses are much
less likely to receive a bypass, angio
plasty or other common, aggressive
treatments.
Previous research has found similar
disparities in cardiac treatment for
women and blacks. The researchers in
the new study suggested that for the men
tally ill, bias among
doctors is at play.
The study was
published in Wednes
day’s Journal of the
American Medical
Association.
The authors re
viewed data on
Medicare recipi
ents nationwide
ages 65 and older
who were hospital-
" . . . are people
treated different
ly medically as a
result of some
thing other than
the medical dis-
order?”
ized for heart at
tacks in 1994 and
1995. Of those,
5,365 had been di-
agnosed with men
tal disorders such as schizophrenia, de
pression and substance abuse.
The researchers examined what pro
cedures the patients received, including
cardiac catheterization — the “gold stan
dard” diagnostic test for heart disease. It
involves squirting dye into cardiac arter
ies and X-raying them to locate block
ages and determine whether treatments
such as angioplasty or bypass surgery
should follow.
Mental patients were 28 percent less
likely to undergo catheterization, 25 per
cent less likely to undergo angioplasty
— in which a tiny balloon is inflated in
side an artery to clear away fatty buildup
— and 32 percent less likely to have by
pass surgery.
There were no
significant differ
ences in the death
rates for both groups
within 30 days of hos
pital admission.
However, Druss said
that finding is not as
important as possible
differences in the
long-term outcome.
The study did not
look beyond 30 days.
The researchers
said possible reasons
for the treatment dis
parities include the
attitudes of mental
patients and the doctors who treat them.
Dr. Roy Ziegelstein, a cardiologist at
Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Cen
ter in Baltimore, said the study “raises
an incredibly important issue, and that
is, are people treated differently med
ically as a result of something other than
the medical disorder?”
— Dr. Roy Ziegelstein
Johns Hopkins cardiologist
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