Capital Cities-ABC Inc. filed suit against the...
Capital Cities-ABC Inc. filed suit against the Treasury Department, claiming the government was trying to block live television coverage of the 1991 Pan American Games in Cuba.
ABC agreed earlier this year to pay the Cuban Pan American Games Organizing Committee $9.5 million for the U.S. television rights to the games, scheduled for Aug. 2-18, 1991, in Havana. Under the Trading with the Enemy Act, U.S. companies and citizens must apply for a license to do business in nations with which the United States has a trade embargo.
According to Barry Frank of Trans World International, the television consultant for the Pan American Sports Organization, the Treasury Department denied the license application last Friday, but told ABC that it could purchase and air videotapes of the games as opposed to live coverage.
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