101.   The Navy has used a tip of Vieques as a bombing range for six decades, training sailors for conflicts from World War II to the Gulf War.

102.   The protesters made their way toward the chain link fence marking the border with Camp Garcia, the Navy bombing range that occupies the eastern third of Vieques.

103.   The Puerto Rican Independence Party, which has led dozens of protesters camping inside the Vieques bombing range, announced it would oppose any renewed military exercises.

104.   The villagers claimed to have suffered for decades from unbearable noise from a U.S. bombing range near their village.

105.   They came to the bombing range with a white wooden cross and the certainty that the U.S. Navy would evict them in a day or two.

106.   Trinidad used the occasion to bring attention to Vieques, an outlying island that Puerto Ricans want the U.S. Navy to stop using as a live bombing range.

107.   Until last month, protesters had camped out on the bombing range for nearly a year following a bombing accident that killed a civilian security guard.

108.   It also contained a sprawling bombing range extensively used for training by US pilots.