51.   Helicopters hovered overhead and U.S. warships loomed offshore Vieques Island amid reports that federal agents were planning to evict protesters from a contested U.S. Navy bombing range.

52.   Hundreds of protesters invaded the bombing range and prevented exercises for nearly a year.

53.   In a concession to Puerto Rico, the Navy has canceled plans to use a disputed bombing range on the island of Vieques this month.

54.   In Arizona, Maj. Anthony Barrell, from Luke Air Force Base near Glendale, was flying over the Barry M. Goldwater bombing range in southwestern Arizona near Yuma.

55.   In recent months, Martin joined the struggle to expel the U.S. Navy from its bombing range in outlying Vieques Island.

56.   Islanders are also annoyed at Republican opposition to their demands that the U.S. Navy close a bombing range on the island of Vieques.

57.   It crashed shortly after the launch in a buffer zone separating the Defense Department bombing range from other federal land, she said.

58.   Kreuder was following a lead pilot, Lt. Col. James Parker, on his way from Moody Air Force Base in Georgia to a bombing range in central Florida.

59.   Kennedy said that during the meeting the Navy agreed to shut down a pit used for disposing unexploded bombs on the Vieques bombing range.

60.   Martin said he might also visit Vieques, the Puerto Rican island where protesters have camped out on a Navy bombing range to thwart military exercises.