Elian is living temporarily with close family and friehds at a sea side house in Havana, belonging to Cuba's Communist Youth move ment and converted into a school for Elian's indoctrination classes. "For him, Cardenas, Varadero and Matanzas were Cuba," said the government statement, which was read on state television, "Thanks to the explanations given him, now he knows perfectly well that his fa therland is bigger." In Cardenas, a roughly two-hour drive east of Havana along Cuba's northern coast and through the city of Matanzas, Elian visited the homes ofboth sets ofgrandparents and also made a call on his old school. He is expected to return permanently to Cardenas laterthis month after completing his indoc trination course in Havana and a holiday with the family. Elian Gonzalez Elian last saw Cardenas seven months ago, before he left on a boat CUBA that capsized at sea, killing his mother and 10 other illegal Cuban migrants. The boy survived mirac ulously and was taken in by Miami relatives, who wanted to keep him over the protests of his father,' Fidel Castro and the Cuban gov ernment. The family feud came to an end last week after the U.S. Supreme. Court ruled in favor of his father, Juan Miguel Gonzalez. Elian was accompanied on Tues day afternoon's trip out of Havana by his father; his stepmother, Nercy; and his half-brother, Hi-- anny. Apart from organizers of the trip, nobody in Cardenas was told of his arrival "to avoid a public out pouring ... and guarantee the Was not aware maximum normality possible," the statement said. The Castro govern le had left U.S. ment has tried to avoid accusations of parading him for political gain.' By Andrew Cawthorne At the Marcelo Salado primary REUTERS NEWS AGENCY school, Elian walked in justas chil dren were "receiving instructions HAVANA — Cuba's famous 6- on how they should behave" when year-old shipwreck survivor, Elian he comes back to the institution. Gonzalez, was taken to his provin In the popular tourist resort of cial birthplace of Cardenas Tues Varadero, where most of the work day to show him that he had, in ers come from nearby Cardenas, fact, returned to Cuba. Elian visited the theme park where Six days after returning from his father worked. The boy played the United States at the end of a in the pool while his father, cur seven-month custody dispute, the rently one of the most famous and boy made a surprise visit to Car popular figures in Cuba, greeted denas and the nearby towns of former workmates. He is due to Varadero and Matanzas, to famil return to his old job once he and iarize himself with his old sur Elian are safely installed back in roundings. Cardenas. "This contact was necessary, be cause the boy does not know the geography of Cuba ... [and] two days after his arrival in the coun try, he asked his father when they would travel to Cuba," said a gov ernment statement announcing the visit. The announcement of Elian's trip was made at the beginning of a regularly scheduled daily tele- . vised roundtable denouncing the ' United Stales.