Subject: Old Insular Affairs verbiage unearthed!<br/>
Date: Apr 30, 2005 @ 23:48<br/>
Author: Lowell G. McManus (&quot;Lowell G. McManus&quot; &lt;mcmanus71496@...&gt;)<br/>
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<div id="ygrps-yiv-1505783446">Mike D. wrote:<br/>
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<blockquote><span title="ireply"> &gt; i also noticed that the word<br/>
&gt; none<br/>
&gt; which appears under<br/>
&gt; remaining united states claims<br/>
&gt; is not in the original font<br/>
&gt; suggesting someone may have quietly monkeyed with this text after the fact<br/>
<br/>
 </span></blockquote>While browsing my hard drive today, I found that on April 20, 1998, I saved<br/>
quite a lot of text from the Insular Affairs web site as it then existed!  The<br/>
site was structured differently back then, but I can give you the language that<br/>
formerly appeared where the monkeying bureaucrat subsequently inserted the word<br/>
&quot;None.&quot;  This is also where the dysfunctional &quot;U.S.&quot; link should point (and<br/>
undoubtedly once did).<br/>
<br/>
Here it is:<br/>
_______<br/>
<br/>
OTHER ISLANDS STILL UNDER DISPUTED<br/>
UNITED STATES&#39; SOVEREIGNTY<br/>
<br/>
The United States&#39; claim to Serranilla Bank:<br/>
<br/>
About two hundred ten miles north north-east of Nicaragua lies the Serranilla<br/>
Bank. Some consider that the United States acquired the bank under the Guano<br/>
Islands Act of August 18, 1856 (Title 48, U.S. Code, sections 1411-19). Several<br/>
very small cays emerge above the water to form the bank&#39;s islands.<br/>
Colombia has not directly claimed Serranilla Bank but is on record as<br/>
considering the bank a part of the Providence Archipelago in the intendancy of<br/>
San Andres y Providencia. Honduras may have asserted its own claim over<br/>
Serranilla as well.<br/>
<br/>
The United States&#39; claim to Bajo Nuevo Bank:<br/>
<br/>
Called also the Petrel Islands, Bajo Nuevo Bank is situated in the Caribbean.<br/>
U.S. claims to this bank derive from the Guano Islands Act too. Bajo Nuevo is<br/>
claimed by Jamaica.<br/>
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<br/>
I don&#39;t think this tells us anything new, but it fills in the blanks.<br/>
<br/>
Lowell G. McManus<br/>
Leesville, Louisiana, USA</div>