FUNDING FOR SNOOPING PROGRAM CUT
"Without fanfare, senators debating defense spending for next year have proposed eliminating all money for the Pentagon's development of a vast computerized terrorism surveillance program that has raised privacy concerns," reports the Associated Press. "In the past, Congress has limited the Defense Department's ability to implement the system now known as Terrorism Information Awareness while allowing research to proceed, but the new provision goes further to ban funding outright."
(CATO)
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Thursday, July 17, 2003
ADIOS CELIA
She left Cuba in 1960 for Mexico and the U.S., where, with Tito Puente and other artists of the time, she injected the Afro-Cuban beat into our soul and elevated the infectious sound of salsa, music that propelled us to the dance floor.
(El Diario/LA PRENSA OnLine )
She left Cuba in 1960 for Mexico and the U.S., where, with Tito Puente and other artists of the time, she injected the Afro-Cuban beat into our soul and elevated the infectious sound of salsa, music that propelled us to the dance floor.
(El Diario/LA PRENSA OnLine )
Tuesday, July 15, 2003
ADIOS COMPAY!
Compay Segundo, the salty Cuban singer and guitarist who rose to global fame in his 90's as the eldest of the elder musical statesmen featured on the album and film 'Buena Vista Social Club,' died on Sunday at his home in Havana, an official at his record company in Spain said. He was 95.
(NYT)
Compay Segundo, the salty Cuban singer and guitarist who rose to global fame in his 90's as the eldest of the elder musical statesmen featured on the album and film 'Buena Vista Social Club,' died on Sunday at his home in Havana, an official at his record company in Spain said. He was 95.
(NYT)
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