81.   In recent days, a U.S. grand jury in Puerto Rico indicted seven Cuban exiles on charges of plotting to murder Fidel Castro.

82.   In the beginning, she said, he also suffered rejection from Cuban exiles who she said suspected him of being a spy because of his military background.

83.   Indeed, the most hotly debated element of the law was whether to allow Cuban exiles to invest.

84.   Interestingly, we now find the Cuban exile community and the Cuban government in agreement on something.

85.   It contended that a Cuban exile who boasted of organizing the attacks had recruited the suspects.

86.   It has all led to an unusually ugly confrontation between the federal government and Cuban exiles here, and one that grew steadily hotter as the week progressed.

87.   It consumes the minds and days of its multi-ethnic masses, forging a wider schism between frenzied Cuban exiles and a non-Cuban population already saturated by Cuban matters.

88.   It is not uncommon to hear Cuban exiles assert, with straight faces, that the breezes in Havana were cooler, the beaches bluer, the fruits sweeter.

89.   It also allows free trade zones and opens the door for Cuban exiles to invest.

90.   It is perhaps the saddest legacy of Elian, say experts on Cuban exile history, immigration, international politics, but it is hardly the only one.