Re: Can anyone verify if this report is for real ?

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essentially, this is indeed true.  as reported in sj merc news and on cbs
radio news who said a navy spokesman said (paraphrasing) 'monterey city
also took this opportunity to exercise their capability for interacting
with military foces such as might be necessary in the case of a disaster ...' 
the jets were overhead inland as far as santa clara



At 09:29 PM 3/13/99 -0500, Jean-Francois Avon wrote:
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>Marines launch controversial military exercises in California
>March 13, 1999       Web posted at: 5:40 PM EST (2240 GMT) 
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>MONTEREY, Calif. (AP) -- Hundreds of Marines practiced rescuing a city 
>threatened by chemical terrorism Saturday outside the view of dozens of 
>protesters who said the military exercise might harm Monterey Bay wildlife. 
>The controversial military exercise, known as Urban Warrior, was launched 
>without the beachfront invasion originally planned. As an early morning fog 
>cleared off Monterey Bay, helicopters transported troops in ships offshore
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>the airport, where they were whisked to exercise sites by bus.
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>http://www.cnn.com/US/9903/13/AM-CoastalInvasion.ap/index.html
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