Marine Chief Says Navy Should Stay in Vieques
From Times Wire Reports
By bowing to Puerto Rico’s demand that the Navy abandon its training range on Vieques, the Bush administration may have stoked protests against U.S. military bases elsewhere, the commandant of the Marine Corps said.
Gen. James Jones said he was worried about the Marines’ future on the Japanese island of Okinawa, where pressure has been growing for years to evict the U.S. military.
The Bush administration announced in June that the Navy would leave Vieques by May 2003.
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