WORLD IN BRIEF : CUBA : U.S. Panel Votes to End TV Funding
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
In an unexpected move, a House Appropriations subcommittee voted to halt all funding of TV Marti, experimental television broadcasting aimed at Cuba. The panel voted 6-5 to delete the $19.8 million designated for the program from the U.S. Information Agency’s 1992 appropriation. Rep. Bill Alexander (D-Ark.) called TV Marti “ineffectual” and a Cold War relic. Cuba has jammed the transmissions.
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