BRIAN NELSON, CNN ANCHOR: Some new developments in the custody battle over that 6-year-old Cuban boy rescued at the off of Florida last Thanksgiving. The Cuban government has now agreed to let the boy's father fly to Miami, but the Cubans are advising him to get a guarantee from U.S. officials that he will get his son back once he arrives in the U.S. We have more on this from CNN's Susan Candiotti.</s>SUSAN CANDIOTTI, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): As 6-year-old Elian Gonzalez meets new classmates at a private school in Miami, and his attorneys demand a political asylum hearing, the question is whether Elian will be there permanently. Publicly calling them contingency plans, the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service is trying to work out a plan in the event the agency returns the 6-year- old boy. The INS has asked the Cuban government to give the boy's father a visa. No problem, says Cuba.</s>RICARDO ALARCON, PRES., CUBAN NATL. ASSEMBLY: We will do whatever is convenient for him, according to his wishes, in order to solve this problem.</s>CANDIOTTI: If the father escorted the boy home, a U.S. official says it might help calm anxiety in Miami's exile community that the father is under duress. But Elian's father has said he's not interested in coming to the U.S., in part, over safety concerns from anti-Castro activists. INS says whether the father does has no bearing on a decision to reunite father and son. How will the exile community react?</s>MAX CASTRO, CUBAN ANALYST: Outrage, some protests, probably some resistance, passive resistance.</s>CANDIOTTI (on camera): Anti-Castro activists are already planning to rally Thursday, to protest what they call the boy's probable return to Cuba, and are calling on truckers, tow truck drivers and motorcyclists to be ready to roll into action for more demonstrations. Susan Candiotti, CNN, Miami.
INS Working on Contingency Plan to Return Elian Gonzalez to Cuba