HAVANA, Cuba (AP) -- A museum in Elian Gonzalez's hometown opens
                 an exhibition Saturday on Cuba's successful efforts to bring the boy
                 back from the United States last year.

                 The Oscar Maria Rojas Museum in the city of Cardenas, about 85 miles (136
                 kilometers) east of Havana, will display photos and newspaper articles on the
                 boy's return to Cuba, the government said.

                 The same museum held an exhibition before Gonzalez's return to Cuba that
                 included pictures drawn by his Cuban classmates. A later exhibition showed
                 Mother's Day cards drawn by Gonzalez and four classmates who visited him in
                 Washington.

                 Elian, now 7, was found floating in an inner tube off Florida after a boat carrying
                 Cuban emigrants sank, killing his mother and 10 other people. His rescue touched
                 off a custody battle between his father in Cuba, Juan Miguel Gonzalez, and
                 other relatives in Florida.

                 A raid by U.S. marshals to seize him from the Florida relatives outraged many
                 Cuban exiles in Miami. The U.S. Supreme Court later ruled in his father's favor,
                 and Elian returned to Cuba in June 2000.

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