Shaffer
01-13-03, 07:53 AM
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico--Puerto Rican protest groups promised to keep up civil
disobedience against imminent U.S. war games on Vieques, despite Friday's
announcement by the Navy that it will soon end 50 years of battle training
on the tiny island May 1.
"Civil disobedience continues to exert pressure," former gubernatorial
candidate David Noriega said yesterday. "On May 1, the lands will still be
contaminated and will still be in federal hands. That's the next battle."
Twenty nine days of battle training scheduled to begin today may be the last
performed by the Navy in Vieques.
The USS Theodore Roosevelt Battle Group was scheduled to practice aerial
bombing and ship-to-shore shelling exercises. Only "dummy" bombs will be
used on the range, a condition imposed after the death of a civilian
security guard in April 1999 during a botched bombing run by a Marine Corps
jet.
disobedience against imminent U.S. war games on Vieques, despite Friday's
announcement by the Navy that it will soon end 50 years of battle training
on the tiny island May 1.
"Civil disobedience continues to exert pressure," former gubernatorial
candidate David Noriega said yesterday. "On May 1, the lands will still be
contaminated and will still be in federal hands. That's the next battle."
Twenty nine days of battle training scheduled to begin today may be the last
performed by the Navy in Vieques.
The USS Theodore Roosevelt Battle Group was scheduled to practice aerial
bombing and ship-to-shore shelling exercises. Only "dummy" bombs will be
used on the range, a condition imposed after the death of a civilian
security guard in April 1999 during a botched bombing run by a Marine Corps
jet.