Unable at the time to provide a home herself, the Cuban grandmother gave the infant to Reverend Elwood Corning and his bedridden mother in Balmville, New York.

Her presentation of the battles between the narrator's revolutionary Cuban grandmother and her fiercely anti-Communist exile mother pulls us into a wary world of volatile emotion and tricky language where every glance or pause is a weapon or an embrace.

Threatened with an order from the Immigration and Naturalization Service, Elian Gonzalez's Miami relatives agreed today to let 6-year-old Elian meet his Cuban grandmothers privately on Wednesday at a neutral place outside the family's house.

My abuela, my Cuban grandmother, gave it to me when she was ill and knew she was going to die.

"Perhaps if I explained to her about your Cuban grandmother-" Stella seemed not to hear.

After waiting nearly five hours in a suburban airport here, the two Cuban grandmothers of Elian Gonzalez gave up their effort to meet the boy today and flew to Washington as their custody battle moved to a new stage.

Or in January because she was hoping his Cuban grandmothers could reclaim him.

The last time he'd done that, a hurricane was barreling down on Miami, and his Cuban grandmother was on her knees praying aloud to Santa Barbara and San Lázaro.

In 2000, McGovern met with the Cuban grandmothers of five-year-old Elian Gonzalez.

The WP , NYT , and LAT front yesterday's meeting in Miami of Elián González with his Cuban grandmothers.