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To: sea_urchin who wrote (20011)	1/4/2004 4:00:01 PM
From: Raymond Duray	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 81996

Searle, Re: To change the subject, I wonder if you have given any thought to the Egyptian 737 which came down in the Red Sea due to mysterious technical failure. Strikes me the circumstances of this crash are very similar to the one involving the late Mr Wellstone, namely the plane just fell out of the sky without the pilot saying a word. I read the Independent article you provided. I've read no others. I generally like to wait a week or two before expressing any speculation about the circumstances surrounding such a tragedy. IMVHO, your suggestion that this tragedy resembles the Wellstone case is (to my mind) premature. I need more facts before saying anything. *** Back to the guy that was given a national holiday in mid-October in the U.S.A....... Christopher Columbus was an obviously ambitious fellow, but he was certainly not noted for his scruples. One of the factoids that came out in Zinn's book, but wasn't available to us in our school textbook histories is that on one of his voyages, the Spanish Royal family offered a prize to the man who was the first to sight the continental territory of the New World. This sighting was accomplished by a low ranking seaman on Columbus's ship. The entire crew knew exactly who this peon was. And expected him to enjoy a fine pension courtesy of the Crown. When the ship returned to Spain, Columbus met with the royal court and announced that he, i.e. Columbus, had had the luck to be the one to have spotted land first. Protests by the low ranking had no impact on the royal decision to reward Columbus with the pension. Yes, Columbus would fit right in in today's White House. He'd be a natural.