MIAMI, 7 (AP) - Elian Gonzalez won't become a poster boy for an Internet search site, his Miami relatives say.

"Elian is not going to be appearing in any ads,'' family spokesman Armando Gutierrez said Sunday. "The family will not allow Elian to be used for anything and have turned down every offer that's been made.''

Wieden & Kennedy, an advertising firm based in Portland, Ore., said in issues of Time magazine that go on sale today that it was making a pitch to the 6-year-old's U.S. relatives about using the boy's image in a national spot for AltaVista, one of the oldest Internet search engines.

Elian was rescued Thanksgiving Day after clinging to an inner tube for two days following a shipwreck that killed his mother. The first-grader has been living in Miami with his great-uncle. His U.S. relatives hope to keep him despite an immigration order to send him back.

In a letter to Attorney General Janet Reno last week, Elian's father, who wants his son returned to him in Cuba, said he was concerned about the ``present condition'' of his son.

Juan Miguel Gonzalez wrote: ``The boy has been forced to pose for TV cameras day and night with people he does not know and who are unscrupulously manipulating him.''

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