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From: Downwithcapitalism <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Monday, April 30, 2001 6:40 PM
Subject: [downwithcapitalism] FW: Vieques (con't.)
Associated Press. 30 April 2001. Searches for Demonstrators on Bombing
Range in Vieques.
VIEQUES, Puerto Rico The U.S. Navy scoured an area packed with
unexploded bombs and shells Monday for demonstrators who reportedly have
buried themselves there to thwart military exercises on the Puerto Rican
island of Vieques.
As soon as the area was cleared of any protesters, destroyers and
fighter jets were to resume firing inert shells and bombs into the range
where protesters say they are hiding.
"There have been some reports that demonstrators are burying themselves
in a live-ordinance area to hide from Navy personnel," said Roberto
Nelson, a Navy spokesman. "This is incredibly dangerous."
The 900-acre firing range is littered with explosives from six decades
of live-fire exercises despite periodic cleanups, Nelson said.
The Navy says the range provides unique training that saves U.S. lives
in combat. It denies anti-Navy activists' claims that the exercises
cause health problems.
On Monday, between 40 and 60 protesters infiltrated the bombing range
but none were reported to have buried themselves, said Robert Rabin, a
protest leader.
A total of 136 protesters have been arrested since Thursday night for
trespassing on federal property. Some were to be charged in court
Monday.
On the edge of the military zone, Navy personnel have fired pepper and
tear gas Sunday at protesters who have cut through fencing in many areas
and stoned military and federal guards.
"We're going to keep putting people on the bombing range because we have
demonstrated that we have been more efficient at getting people in there
than the Navy has been at taking them out," said protest leader Carlos
Zenon, a fisherman.
Opposition grew after an April 1999 accident in which two off-target
bombs killed a civilian guard at the range on the eastern tip of
Vieques. Since last May, the Navy has used only inert ammunition.
The exercises began on Friday and were halted Sunday in honor of the
beatification in Rome of Carlos Manuel Rodriguez, the first Puerto Rican
to be put on a path to sainthood.
The current exercises involve about 15,000 sailors and Marines and a
dozen cruisers and destroyers in the battle group of the Norfolk,
Va.,-based aircraft carrier USS Enterprise.
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