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Treasure All Ours, Spain Says.

Tampa Bay Online, 9 May 2008

TAMPA - Spain claims it has evidence that the sunken treasure recovered last year by Tampa-based Odyssey Marine Exploration was taken from a 19th century Spanish warship without consent of the Spanish government, according to papers filed Thursday in U.S. District Court in Tampa.

Spain said the sunken treasure, 17 tons of colonial-era coins worth an estimated $500 million, was taken from the Nuestra Senora de las Mercedes, a Spanish warship sunk by the British navy south of Portugal in 1804. The Spanish government demanded that the treasure be returned to Spain.

Odyssey, a publicly held deep-sea exploration and salvage company, announced in May 2007 that it had recovered 500,000 gold and silver coins from an undisclosed location in the Atlantic Ocean and flew the treasure to Tampa, saying at the time it didn't know the identity of the sunken ship.

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Obama backs Florida's role in convention.

Miami Herald7, 9 May 2008

WASHINGTON -- Barack Obama says Florida's delegation will be at the national Democratic Party's convention this summer, ''happy, with their party hats on,'' two uncommitted Florida superdelegates said Thursday.

But with the Democratic presidential nomination undecided, the details remain muddled: Rep. Tim Mahoney, a Palm Beach Gardens Democrat, said Obama is leery of seating the delegation in a way that reflects the state's unsanctioned primary.

''He understands it's important that the Florida delegates get seated and he's committed to doing that,'' said Mahoney, among the uncommitted superdelegates who were courted by Obama Thursday. ``At the same time he's concerned that the primary wasn't reflective of how well he could have done.''

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