In a message dated 6/28/2006 8:14:51 AM Eastern Standard Time, trobinson42@comcast.net writes: The southern prong was to go up the Mississippi, take New Orleans and paralyze the west. << Well, we fired our cannon til the barrel melted down, so we grabbed an alligator and we fought another round.>> The best laid plans <G> Thanks for this I had forgotten how good Asimov was. Eliz