IP: Believe it or not as you will -- Yugoslavia may lose some Internet access -- AND WORSE!

[Dave Farber <farber () cis upenn edu>]

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> Date: Fri, 14 May 1999 14:22:56 -0700
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> From: Jim Warren <jwarren () well com>
> Subject: Re: IP: Yugoslavia may lose some Internet access -- AND WORSE!
>
> > 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. ...
>
> Dave (and IPers) --
>
> A good friend of mine in San Francisco, receives email from and speaks,
> daily, with her 85-year-old mother -- a retired journalist -- who still
> lives in Belgrade, Yugoslovia.  (Note: Until we began bombing Belgrade, its
> citizens were so anti-Milosovic that their elected representative was in
> one of Milosovic's ardent opponents.)
>
> She has told me that her mother and many other Yugoslavs and Serbs daily
> receive TV news broadcasts, "just as reliable as, I guess, the US media is,
> except it's considerably more informational (they have a chance to see CNN,
> BBC, NATO briefings, Russian, Italian, German TV, mostly through Sky, hear
> radio stations from the entire Europe as well as "Radio Free Europe" and
> "Voice of America" NATO governments' stations)."
>
> Apparently they receive much of ther TV news that is NOT controlled by
> Milosovic  via satellite systems -- comparable to the low-cost, consumer
> DBS systems [direct-broadcast satellite] we have in the U.S.
>
> One must surely wonder about the techno-geriatrics who are "guiding"(?) our
> latest [undeclared] war.  Or maybe they're just trying to finally make
> true, their FALSE daily propaganda about how the Serb people only hear
> Milosovic propaganda.
>
> For her mother's VERY independent first-person reports from Belgrade, check
> out www.keepfaith.com .
>
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