[CPEO-MEF] Honolulu Star: Navy Should Stop Shelling Vieques

[Aimee Houghton <aimeeh@cpeo.org>]

[The following was forwarded by KEBOI@aol.com. 
--Aimee] 


Honolulu Star Bulletin
May 1, 2001

Navy should cease
shelling of Vieques

The issue: The Navy has resumed
bombing exercises on the Puerto
Rican island of Vieques without
waiting for a review of a health study.

PROTESTS over the Navy's training activities on the tiny Puerto Rican
island of Vieques may ring familiar to Hawaii residents. Similar 
protests led to a halt of bombing on Kahoolawe and currently seek to
stop Army training with live ammunition in the Makua Valley on Leeward
Oahu. However, the Navy's handling of the controversy in Puerto Rico has
been much worse, and its decision to resume bombing is deplorable. 
Shelling should stop until a completion of the review of a health study
and of a referendum that the Navy is committed to honor.

The Navy stopped shelling the unoccupied island of Kahoolawe more than a
decade ago and Congress made a commitment to clear unexploded ordnance
from the island. In Makua Valley, the Army suspended training in 1998
after several wildfires were started by munitions, then met with the
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in an effort to protect endangered plants
and wildlife.....

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http://starbulletin.com/2001/05/01/editorial/editorials.html#jump>>

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Aimee R. Houghton                                 

Associate Director, CPEO

122 C Street NW, Suite 700

Washington, DC  20001-2109

tel: 202-662-1888; fax: 202-628-1825

Email: aimeeh@cpeo.org

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