21.   Several hundred protesters occupying a portion of the bombing range are demanding that the Navy and Marine Corps stop shelling the island.

22.   Senior Pentagon officials have insisted that protesters be removed from a bombing range on the island before training exercises begin.

23.   Senior Pentagon officials have insisted that protestors be removed from a bombing range on the island in before training exercises begin.

24.   Since then, dozens of protesters have been arrested for trespassing on the bombing range.

25.   The bombing range is nine miles from the nearest house.

26.   The Clinton administration is preparing to evict dozens of protesters camped at the Navy bombing range on Vieques, an island off the coast of Puerto Rico.

27.   The first question was about the U.S. Navy bombing range on Vieques, an island off Puerto Rico.

28.   The majority of protesters have said that they will not physically resist the federal agents, but will have to be arrested to leave the bombing range.

29.   The Pentagon has been putting pressure on the Justice Department to clear the bombing range of protesters.

30.   The U.S. tilt toward Japan on the Senkakus continued after the handover to Japan, for the United States continued to use the bombing range for a half-dozen years.