JOIE CHEN, CNN ANCHOR: The island of Vieques has been used as a bombing range since 1941, but opposition has been growing over the last few years. Demonstrators say people who live on Vieques are at a higher risk of cancer, and that they're exposed to dangerous noise levels. The surprise announcement came during President Bush's summit with European leaders. CNN White House correspondent Major Garrett joins us from Sweden, with more on the story -- Major?</s>MAJOR GARRETT, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Joie, every new president inherits a couple of tough issues and certainly the issue of Vieques is a tough one for President Bush. On the one hand, he has the U.S. Navy and its supporters throughout the Pentagon who believe that live fire training in Vieques is the necessary part of overall military preparedness. On the other hand, numerous protesters on the island itself, their supporters in Congress, and even some celebrities from rallied to the cause since an errant bomb and then -- excuse me -- since an errant bomb in 1999, killed an islander on the island of Vieques, that sparked tremendous protests there, those protests have continued in Congress, and led the president to decide and announce that on -- in May in the year of 2003, the Navy would suspend bombing training there on the island of Vieques -- Joie.</s>CHEN: All right. CNN's Major Garrett reporting.
Bush Says Navy Will Cease Bombings at Vieques