Elian Gonzalez and his father, Juan Miguel, wave farewell as they board a Havana-bound chartered flight at Dulles International Airport near Washington, D.C. The U.S. Supreme Court rejected a formal appeal filed by the boy's Miami relatives to postpone his departure after seven months in the United States.

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