STILL IN LIMBO
About 30,000 Cubans who tried to reach U.S. shores, but instead wound up detained at the Guantanamo Bay Naval base, got a sliver of hope today. In Miami, a federal judge blocked the U.S. from repatriating them pending a hearing tomorrow, forcing an immigration official to race to a pay phone to stop a plane carrying 23 refugees from taking off.
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RAY KELLY, New York City Police Commissioner, on the arrest of a New Jersey man in one of the nation's most baffling missing-children cases, the disappearance more than three decades ago of 6-year-old Etan Patz.
