1.   His mother drowned two months ago during an escape from Cuba, but Elian survived, clinging for two days to an inner tube in the Atlantic off Florida.

2.   His mother had drowned bringing him to the United States from Cuba.

3.   His mother drowned trying to bring him here from Cuba.

4.   In the case of Elian, whose mother drowned en route to Florida last year, his father made the decision to take him back to their communist homeland.

5.   Sure, the child watched his mother drown.

6.   That changed with the firestorm over a small boy whose mother drowned in the Florida Straits.

7.   The child was rescued at sea clinging to an inner tube in November after his mother drowned.

8.   Troubled, but in a steady voice, Elian told his father he had seen his mother drown.

9.   Did he see his mother drown?

10.   Elian survived a crossing from Cuba last November but his mother drowned when their boat capsized.