[NEWS] Cuba and the Internet

["E. Allen Smith" <EALLENSMITH@ocelot.Rutgers.EDU>]

	I wonder what addresses they'll be using? I can't recall a Cuba
domain, but I may easily be mistaken. If some consistent pattern can be
found, cgi scripts could block them from getting to technically useful data,
thus decreasing Cuba's economic viability further.
	-Allen

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>   HAVANA (Oct 5, 1996 12:36 p.m. EDT) - Cuba will establish links with
>   the Internet from next week, but will initially allow only selected
>   scientific and other state institutions to have access to the
>   international information network, official Cuban media said Saturday.
   
>   The ruling Communist Party newspaper Granma said the state-run
>   National Center for Automized Exchange of Information (CENIAI),
>   designated as the national provider of the service, would set up the
>   link next Friday.
   
>   Cuban authorities said in June that access to the Internet would be
>   defined by Cuba's interests and priority would be given to individuals
>   and bodies with most relevance to the country's life and development.
   
>   Granma said the Internet link give Cuba access to a bank of world
>   knowledge and enable it to present its point of view to the world,
>   including in areas such as scientific advances.
   
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