These actions will aid the changes already under way in Cuba and facilitate an orderly and just transformation of Cuban-American relations.

González was at the center of a controversy involving parental custody and Cuban-American relations.

Bad Cuban-American relations were exacerbated the following year by the Cuban Missile Crisis.

They were instructed to fully cooperate with local authorities, in order to minimize frictions in Cuban-American relations.

General Noriega has acknowledged several such meetings, which he has said dealt with foreign policy issues, including aspects of Cuban-American relations.

During the Carter administration, when there were signs of a thaw in Cuban-American relations, the two men even toured the United States briefly.

In an immediate sense, the hostility in Cuban-American official relations is unlikely to be touched by the Elian Gonzalez case.

State Department officials insisted that the request to search the vessel was a routine, drug-related matter and had nothing to do with Cuban-American relations.

Deteriorating Cuban-American relations were made worse by the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis.

That said, this episode may be the best thing that ever happened to Cuban-American relations.