11.   An international custody battle ensued, and the child eventually returned to Cuba with his father in June.

12.   Cuba blames a U.S. law called the Cuban Adjustment Act for the international custody battle over Elian.

13.   Cuba blames the Cuban Adjustment Act, in particular, for the international custody battle over Elian.

14.   Elian has been the subject of an international custody dispute since November, when he was found floating on an inner tube off the Florida coast.

15.   Elian has been at the center of an international custody battle since November, when he was rescued from waters off the Florida Coast.

16.   Elian became the center of an international custody fight between his Cuban father who wanted him returned to Cuba and his Miami relatives who said he deserved U.S. citizenship.

17.   Even when Castro met the boy whose international custody battle absorbed the island nation, no photographs of the historic meeting were published and no videotaped images were shown.

18.   Elian has been at the center of an international custody battle since fishermen found him lashed to an inner tube floating off the coast of Florida on Thanksgiving Day.

19.   Found clinging to an inner tube off the coast of Florida in late November, Elian has been the subject of an international custody battle.

20.   For the first time since they became the subject of an international custody dispute, twin girls who were adopted over the Internet met briefly with their birth parents.