IP: Yugoslavia may lose some Internet access

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

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