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Elián has been roped into someone else's game: He is the center of an "international tug of war" in the WP lede and a front-page LAT caption, and the "center of a political tug-of-war" in the USAT . The NYT turns him into "the central object in a tug-of-war."
Issue 2 is the political tug-of-war over Cuban boy Elián González.
The writer traces Fidel Castro's behavior through a sordid four-and-a-half year international tug-of-war for his own son.
The NYT tentatively speculates that the hijacking is related to the Indian-Pakistani tug-of-war over Kashmir but doesn't say how.