[CPEO-MEF] GUIDELINES FOR MILITARY BOMBING ON FARALLON DE MEDINILLA=CONSIDERED

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PACIFIC ISLANDS REPORT

Pacific Islands Development Program/East-West Center
With Support From Center for Pacific Islands Studies/University of Hawai=91=
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GUIDELINES FOR MILITARY BOMBING ON FARALLON DE MEDINILLA CONSIDERED

By Aldwin R. Fajardo
Staff Reporter

SAIPAN, Northern Mariana Islands (March 7, 2001 =AD Saipan
Tribune/Abridged)---The Senate is seriously looking at setting the
guidelines for the U.S. Military's bombing exercises on Farallon de
Medinilla, in new attempts to save the island north of Saipan from further
destruction.

Senate Floor Leader Pete P. Reyes disclosed plans to craft a resolution=
 that
would list the kind of military activities that may be allowed.

While acknowledging that the CNMI allowed the island's use for military
exercises when it signed the Covenant with the US, Mr. Reyes said local
leaders were not aware then of the environmental destruction that comes=
 with
the bombing.

"Only yesterday did we learn that the exercises have been causing
intolerable damage to the island because the bombing has been concentrated
on the middle part of Farallon de Medinilla," he said.

For more see:  http://pidp.ewc.hawaii.edu/pireport/2001/March/03-08-14.htm


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