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To: Jan Crawley who wrote (41635)	2/21/1999 4:39:00 PM
From: Bill Harmond	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 164687

Nope. No spanky, no trippy.

To: Jan Crawley who wrote (41635)	2/21/1999 9:58:00 PM
From: Glenn D. Rudolph	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 164687

Cuba may cut most phone service with U.S. over unpaid bills February 19, 1999 Web posted at: 11:19 p.m. EST (0419 GMT) HAVANA (CNN) -- Cuba has vowed to cut most phone service between the United States and Cuba next week unless five U.S. phone companies pay their overdue bills. The Cuban Foreign Ministry said Friday that if the money owed for December services to the state-run telephone company, Empresa de Telecomunicaciones de Cuba S.A., known as ETECSA, is not paid by Thursday, communications will be suspended. The phone companies that would be affected are AT&T, MCI, LDDS, IDB and WilTel. However, service by the U.S. company Sprint and TLDI of Puerto Rico will be maintained because both companies have paid their bills, the ministry said. The telephone companies have been withholding payments to Cuba since December, pending a federal court case involving the relatives of four Cuban-Americans killed when their planes were shot down by Cuban MiGs in February 1996. The relatives were awarded a $187 million judgment by the U.S. court, but they have been unable to collect the money from the Cuban government. A federal judge is considering whether to confiscate the money U.S. phone companies pay to ETECSA for long-distance calls from the United States to Cuba. The U.S. State Department has opposed the families' case, saying that telecommunications payments to Cuba cannot be seized to compensate family members seeking damages for relatives killed by the Cuban military. State Department spokesman James Foley said this week that the telecommunications payments are immune from garnishment because the Cuban telephone company is a separate entity and is not legally responsible for the debts of the two defendants in the case -- the Republic of Cuba and the Cuban Air Force. The licensed payments to the Cuban phone company are also immune from garnishment under Treasury Department regulations, he added.