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Since 1941, the Navy has practiced advanced training--integrating different elements of combat--on the small island off the Puerto Rican mainland...
...signing a petition written by Hans S. Perl-Matanzo '01, professors are arguing that the Navy's use of the island as a site for war games and practice bombing runs has spelled economic problems and humanitarian issues for the island's residents, called Viequenses...
Several prominent professors, including Warburg Professor of Economics, Emeritus John Kenneth Galbraith, have joined with over 200 Harvard students in demanding that President Clinton remove all military personnel from the island...
Though the Navy says the Vieques training range is vital to military readiness, Perl-Matanzo's supporters maintain that the Navy's presence has been devastating to the 9,300 Viequenses who inhabit the island...
...petition's supporters contend that the Vieques economy is being hurt by the Navy presence. They argue that the island's fishing industry has been hurt by the Navy's bombing of natural fisheries, and that the island cannot benefit from the tourism that the rest of Puerto Rico enjoys...