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From: judice@sulaco.enet.dec.com (Louis J. Judice  23-Jan-1991 1634)
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Subject: Re: CNN/Baghdad
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I was just listening to an interview with Ed Turner, VP News for CNN.
(No relation to Ted Turner, BTW). He indicated the four-wire circuit
has indeed been out for days, and that Inmarsat is currently being
used (in his words, "Arnet sets it up in the hotel lobby and puts
$4000 in quarters in it" :) )

Iraqi Ministry of Information people are there to kill the connection
if he deviates from the pre-approved report he's sending.

He also indicated that while CNN would definitely never offer to have
shared the four-wire line, that the story about Iraq demanding it be
shared or cut is not true.


ljj