VIEQUES, Puerto Rico (AP) -- Protesters on Vieques island pledged a new
                 round of demonstrations to thwart U.S. Navy bombing exercises, saying
                 they will not be satisfied until the military agrees to leave.

                 After a weekend without exercises, training was to resume on the Puerto Rican
                 island Monday, Navy spokeswoman Lt. Cmdr. Katherine Goode said.

                 "There will be a rain of bombs and a storm of civil disobedience all week long,"
                 protest leader Robert Rabin said on Sunday.

                 U.S. civil rights leader the Rev. Jesse Jackson had said he planned to return to
                 Vieques on Monday, but he stayed in San Juan for a meeting for Gov. Sila
                 Calderon instead. Jackson said he decided his efforts would be better spent
                 rallying support on the outside rather than risk imprisonment for civil
                 disobedience.

                 Jackson had visited Vieques on Saturday, but did not trespass on Navy land, as
                 some protesters have in an effort to thwart exercises.

                 His wife, Jacqueline Jackson, was arrested last week after crossing onto Navy
                 property with other protesters. She has remained in a federal prison in suburban
                 San Juan since Tuesday because she refused to pay $3,000 bail.

                 Authorities have arrested 47 people since exercises began on Vieques last week,
                 Goode said. U.S. President George W. Bush has called for training on Vieques
                 to end in 2003, but opponents want it to stop now.

                 During the last round of protests in late April and early May, more than 180
                 demonstrators were detained for trespassing on Navy property. Among them
                 was civil rights leader the Rev. Al Sharpton, who has been on a hunger strike in
                 a New York prison since May 29, consuming only liquids.

                 Jackson, who leads the Chicago-based Rainbow/PUSH Coalition civil rights
                 group, complained that his wife was kept in solitary confinement for refusing a
                 body cavity search. He also said several other women refused the search and
                 have been moved into the same area with his wife.

                 The Puerto Rican Working Women's Organization said in a statement that nine
                 women have been punished for refusing to be searched.

                 Prison officials did not immediately return calls seeking comment. A Bureau of
                 Prisons spokeswoman in Washington, Traci Billingsley, said last week that all
                 inmates have to submit to a visual search after they receive visitors. She said
                 there is no solitary confinement, although inmates who refuse a search may end
                 up in "special housing."

                 Protests against six decades of Navy exercises on Vieques gained momentum
                 when errant bombs killed a civilian guard on the range in 1999. Since then, the
                 Navy hasn't used live ammunition, instead using inert bombs and shells.

                 Activists say the training poses a health threat on the Puerto Rican island, an
                 allegation the Navy strongly denies.

                 The Navy said the current exercises would last through the week.

                   Copyright 2001 The Associated Press.