[CPEO-MEF] Vieques and Cape Cod

[joelf@cape.com]

The following article appeared in the Cape Cod Times on July 31. The 
headline writers were a little Cape Cod - Chauvinistic. (The full 
article can be found at the address given below.)


http://www.capecodonline.com/cctimes/archives/2001/jul/31/viequesvote31.htm

			Vieques vote to oust Navy follows Cape's lead
                    Two Sandwich activists have coached the Puerto 
Rico island in its attempt to
                                                         halt military 
training.

                                    By KEVIN DENNEHY
                                    STAFF WRITER
                                    Nearly 7 in 10 voters on the 
Puerto Rican island of Vieques want
                                    the U.S. Navy to leave their 
island immediately, according to a
                                    referendum vote on Sunday.

                                    But advocates for such a military 
exit say it may require
                                    something extremely unusual for 
that to happen - such as an
                                    administrative order from the 
federal Environmental Protection
                                    Agency.

                                    As anyone familiar with Camp 
Edwards on the Upper Cape knows,
                                    such an order would not be 
unprecedented - it happened here.

                                    In 1997, the EPA's Region 1 
officials ordered the National Guard
                                    to stop firing artillery and 
mortars on the Cape's Army Guard
                                    base because of a threat to public 
health - the first time
                                    anywhere that military training 
had been stopped for
                                    environmental reasons.
-- 
Joel Feigenbaum
24 Pond View Drive
E. Sandwich MA 02537
(508)-833-0144

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