Seeds of death: the proliferation of land mines. (Originated from Knight-Ridder Newspapers)

From: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service | Date: December 31, 1993| Author: Glantz, Michael | Copyright information 
    There is a plague across the globe that is only now receiving the attention it deserves. This plague is a plague of land mines. 
    There are estimates of undetonated land mines on the order of 85 to 100 million around the globe, still waiting on the ground. Like the drugs plaguing our neighborhoods, land mines are easy to get, cheap, and have very costly implications for the future. 
    They are seen as important to military operations by all sides in any given conflict. Used to de...

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