Clinton Urges Study of Vieques Options
From Times Wire Reports
President Clinton instructed Pentagon officials to develop alternatives to training exercises on Vieques in case Puerto Rico’s voters decide the U.S. Navy should leave the island before a previously agreed 2003 departure. Voters could turn down a Nov. 6 referendum on whether the Navy should stay through May 2003. Clinton asked officials to report by March 9 on how Navy and Marine Corps training needs through May 2003 could be accomplished without exercises on Vieques.
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