Good grief: is nothing safe? I thought Admiral Rickhover solved that one a
few years ago. Actually, I’ve long thought that German agents did it aided
by Czarist and Japanese coconspirators. Clear as a bell when you think about
it. Curse you Tirpitz!

>The new Feb 1998 _National Geographic_ arrived in the mail today and one
>of the articles is a computer aided analysis of the sinking of the
>_Maine_. I just skimmed it, but it seems that the conclusion is that it
>could have been either an internal explosion or a mine that sunk the
>ship.
>
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>
>Steve Alvin
>Dept. of Social Sciences
>Illinois Valley Community College
>
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