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Article: Senate Panel Votes Funds For TV Marti; Critics Worry Castro Will Jam Broadcasts
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- The Washington Post
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- June 28, 1988
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In some ways, the fight over the proposed TV Marti is reminiscent
of the fight to get Radio Marti on the air five years ago.
The project calls for floating a balloon 10,000 feet above the
Florida Keys so that TV Marti can broadcast everything from federally
sanctioned news to Disney cartoons into downtown Havana.
The Senate Appropriations Committee has approved funding and Vice
President Bush has promised his support, but critics question whether
the project's cost is worth the risk of Cuba jamming it or
retaliating by disrupting television stations in Florida.
"The problem is that if they want to interfere with it badly
enough, they can do it," said S.W. Stiepler, an engineer with ...