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IP: Yugoslavia may lose some Internet access
From: Dave Farber <farber () cis upenn edu>
Date: Fri, 14 May 1999 08:46:35 -0400
WASHINGTON (AP) - Parts of Yugoslavia could lose Internet access because an American satellite company might be ordered to stop transmitting into the country under a U.S. trade embargo. Loral Space and Communications Ltd. of New York said Thursday it could be forced to cut transmissions into Yugoslavia from one of its satellites, which serves at least two of the country's major Internet providers. Earlier this month, President Clinton issued an executive order banning U.S. companies from selling or supplying to Yugoslavia "any goods, software, technology or services." Word of the threat to shut down Internet access to parts of Yugoslavia spread quickly across the worldwide computer network, where it was mostly condemned in e-mail messages and online discussion groups. See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2559538753-607
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