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Article: Church stands with people in troubled Vieques.(protests continue over live-fire testing on Vieques Island, Puerto Rico)(Brief Article)
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- National Catholic Reporter
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- August 11, 2000
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President Clinton's Jan. 31 directives concerning the use of part of Vieques, Puerto Rico, as a target range for the U.S. Navy troubled members of the House Armed Services Committee. In the months preceding the directives, Vieques was in a state of uproar. The little island east of Puerto Rico's mainland had reached its saturation point for live ordinances, napalm and depleted uranium -- the stuff of modern military maneuvers -- and Puerto Ricans of all political persuasions wanted the Navy out. Clerics, politicians and housewives had joined others in a campaign of popular civil disobedience, camping in the Navy's restricted zone to prohibit the resumption of live-fire ...
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