U NAVY TO stop up PUERTO RICO BASE...

U NAVY TO stop up PUERTO RICO BASE. U.S. Navy ships are vanishing from Roosevelt Roads Naval Station, ending an era when defense spending boost Puerto Rico's economy and the U Commonwealth was seen as a strategic asset, reports AP (Jan. 5 2004): The military has used the base for six decades to restrain watch over the Caribbean, and as the outpost ceases with thousands of troops and civilians