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We are acting freely,” paternal grandmother Mariela Quintana said during a 90-minute broadcast Tuesday night on Cuban state television. Jeanne O’Laughlin, a nun of the Dominican order who hosted their meeting with Elian last week, has said she now favors keeping the 6- year-old in the United States, in part because she believes the Cuban government is manipulating the family. “She is the one who is not free,” said mater nal grandmother Raquel Rodriguez, who wept while recalling the meeting with Elian. “She is a lying person. It’s a lie ... so many lies.” The boy has been at the center of an inter national custody battle pitting his father and grandparents in Cuba against the boy’s great- uncle in Miami. The grandmothers complained that the child — who has lived most of his life in their homes — seemed quiet and withdrawn when he was brought to meet them on Jan. 26 at the home of O’Laughlin, president of Barry University. “He looked frightened ... His face was sad. He was not the boy we knew,” Quintana said. They said the boy’s second-cousin, Marisle- ysis Gonzalez, apparently remained with O’Laughlin and another nun in a room next door and could listen though an open entryway, de spite an agreement that members of the Miami family would not be at the meeting. In a column published Tuesday in the .Yew York Times, O’Laughlin said she now favors keeping Elian in the United States with Maris- leysis Gonzalez partly because the boy “has transferred his maternal love to her” follow ing the loss of his mother. She said the grandmoth ers seemed fearful — apparently of their own government. Rodriguez said Elian seemed nervous when the grandmothers questioned the pres ence of his cousin. “He said, ’Look grand mother, this is my cousin,' “ she said. “He said it as if the boy was depending on her, that he could not be without her.” Quintana said that Marisleysis Gonzalez had almost no relationship w ith Elian before the No vember shipwreck. The women said their meeting w ith the bo\ was repeatedly interrupted by nuns offering UkkI or bringing messages. Rodriguez said one nun entered three times w ith the same message. The>' said that the boy was starting to w arm up when O’Laughlin halted the meeting after 90 minutes, short of the two-hour minimum re ported!) agreed to. Alter the boy was taken away, “We cried a lot. That was terrible," Quintana said. Quintana said attempts to speak w ith the boy by telephone either from the United States or Cuba had been unsuccessful because the) were alw ays told that the child was either sleeping or out. She said the boy’s father, how e\ er, had man aged to speak to the bo\ tw ice in recent dav s. The U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service has ruled I lian should be returned to his father, but the Miami relatives ;ure try mg to block that action in federal court. 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