6/28/00 3:55 p.m. Back to the Fatherland What we've learned from the seven-month saga of Elián. By NR's editors Elián González has been returned to his father in Cuba . . . which is to say, to Fidel Castro, self-appointed father of that nation. The lad and his sperm donor had actually sent a Father's Day card to El Jefe from the estate of whichever Clinton pal was last to play host to them. The seven-month saga of this unfortunate child revealed a number of things about America, none of them reassuring. We learned, or were reminded of, the following. ...