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...killing of a civilian last year by an errant bombing run on the Puerto Rican island of Vieques, which the U.S. Navy has used as a bomb-testing site since 1941, sparked increased efforts by Harvard Students for Peace in Vieques...
...group, which has more than 50 members, participated in several protests on and off campus this year. Their rallies included both Puerto Rican and non-Puerto Rican students...
...miles out, as they tied Puerto Rican flags to the bow and played cat and mouse with Coast Guard ships patrolling the channel, the Rosas saw more than 15 other Vieques fishing boats slicing through the translucent blue water to join them. "This is the Borinquen I want to see," said Jose, using the indigenous name for Puerto Rico. "We're learning to stand up for ourselves, for once...
...there are death issues too. David Sanes was a close friend of Jose and Julio's; he played first base on their local baseball team. When Sanes, who worked as a security guard, was killed by a stray Navy bomb in April 1999, it galvanized Puerto Ricans--including U.S. Congressmen up in El Norte--whose protests shut down the Navy's Vieques operations for more than a year. Last January, Bill Clinton, who feels Puerto Rico's pain--especially now that Hillary needs the votes of New York's Puerto Rican emigres--made an agreement with the island's government...
JANET RENO A.G. clears Puerto Rican protesters without a shot. Now just get the kid back to Cuba...