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In a message dated 12/24/1999 4:58:08 AM Eastern Standard Time,
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<< Andrew,
Do you know why they are there? Is their presence routine or is this a
first? In any case, I cannot imagine why they should be "firing" anything!
Some of the large vessels are capable of generating huge amounts of
electricity, enough for a small city. Could their presence be related to
this with the date change approaching? That still does not address the DU
activity but might explain what they are doing there in the first place. Of
course with the huge popularity that this country enjoys (ha!) as evidenced
by the ever increasing terrorists threats, maybe it is "any port in a
storm." All clustered in a group, they make an inviting target for enemies,
a la Pearl Harbor. Maybe you could go to the press for some coverage and
get this DU activity stopped!
Amelia >>
The odd habits of the US Navy came up on another listing. Someone came on as
very angry with the Puerto Ricans because they didn't want the Navy to
practice their shooting there, and even angrier because President Clinton had
awarded them a rather small cash settlement for the damage done. I posted
the following:
I am not an expert on Vieques either, but I remembered reading a column about
it, and I have found it. I won't try to give all the info, but this matrial
was written by Anthony M. Stevens-Arroyo, formerly vice chairman of the NY
State Committee for the U>S> Commission on Civil Rights. He is professor of
Puerto Rican and Latino Studies at Brooklyn College.
In it he describes an incident on l8 April in which an F-l8 Navy jet from the
USS John F. Kennedy missed its target and launched a bomb that killed one
Puerto Rican civilian and seriously injured four others. Vieques is less
than 2l miles long and five miles wide. Its population is fewer than l0,000
and the Navy occupies 75% of its 33,000 acres, pushing the natives into a
six-mile strip at one corner.
Since l94l when it took the land, the US has engaged in shooting live
ammunition at targets on an inhabited island. Not only are the local people
at risk from mistakes, but the practice of warplane strafing destroys the
livelihood of the local fishermen.
Vieques has experienced fatal accidents before, and the Navy has practiced
landings on its beaches. The Navy refuses to declare whether nuclear weapons
are stored on Viequest, but in a public statement issued May 27, the Navy
admitted it used radiation-dangerous bullets in maneuvers. It has now
acknowledged that on Feb l9, it fired 263 armor-piercing shells with depleted
uranium. The Navy claims there is no danger of radiation poisoning unless
the depleted uranium is inhaled.
The Puerto Rico Health Department found that between l985 and l989, the
population of Vieques had an incidence of throat and pharynx cancer much
greater than the rest of Puerto Rico. Before the l980's, Vieques rsidents
suffered fewer cancer cases than the rest of Puerto Rico.
One environmentalist said that a particle one-quarter the diameter of a human
hair--small enough to be lodged in a lung--emits 800 times the amount of
radiation that could be tolerated during an entire year. Each of the 25mm
shells fired by the Navy over Vieques contain a third of a pound of depleted
uranium--meaning almost 90 pounds of the material was used. End of material
taken from the article.
In a 4 December article in the New York Times, it was announced that the Navy
would stop bombing practice on Vieques and move its operations to Scotland.
I wonder how the Scots feel about that. I'm sure Mr. Blair must have decided
it was just fine, but then he doesn't live in Scotland.
Prudy
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