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DAMAGED LIVES.(some 26,000 deaths and injuries from land mines take place every year)
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Two Years After the Land-Mine Ban, Nations Still Plant Mines, Reports Group
WASHINGTON, D.C.--Consider yourself lucky.
As a young person in the United States, you may have problems, but at least you don't have to worry every day about having an arm or a leg blown off by a land mine. In a number of countries today, losing an arm or a leg or even one's life because of a buried land mine is a real and present danger for kids and adults.
Anti-personnel land mines are buried bombs that are designed to explode when stepped on or touched. Armies set ...
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U.S. leaders move to support ban on land mines.(Editorial)
Magazine article from: National Catholic Reporter
; ...the millions of land mines that are scattered...And then the United States sent soldiers...antipersonnel land mines. Members of Congress...military that the United States uses such mines...the export of land mines by the United States for ...
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The U.S. bypasses conference on land mines.(Columns)
Magazine article from: National Catholic Reporter
; ...elimination of land mines. But the vast...seeking to remove land mines was deeply disappointed...non-attendance of the United States. In the five years...to destroy all land mines within four years...to Nairobi. The United States did not. The ...
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Can we ban land mines? (Column)
Magazine article from: Commonweal
; Land mines kill people, or maim...dead, or legless. Land mines cannot distinguish...gathering firewood. Land mines recognize no cease-fi...soldiers who laid them. Land mines are hidden not only...a 510-page report, Land Mines, A Deadly Legacy...years a ban on ...
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A surgeon's touch.(about the land mines and war)
Magazine article from: The Progressive
; ...England and the United States are in a state...victims of land mines and other products...movement to ban land mines became widespread...millions of land mines have been destroyed...on producing land mines. The United States maintains ...
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`Ban mines,' activists urge Clinton, Congress.(protesters want U.S. to sign Mine Ban Treaty and cease the use of land mines)(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: National Catholic Reporter
; ...convention against land mines. Six years...claim that the United States will sign the...alternatives. The United States has 11 million land mines stockpiled...back in the United States July 10 from a Guatemala land mines forum also...
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Land mines great killers of the innocent: the United Nations estimates that up to 110 million mines in 64 countries could explode at a misstep.(Editorial)
Magazine article from: National Catholic Reporter
; ...been. Millions of land mines (reports range from...but where there are land mines, there is no peace...hands. Victims of land mines -- some 500 each...they are laid. The United Nations estimates...responsibility. The United States has been among major...and ...
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 "The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR)")
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The killing fields.(Editorials)(Afghanistan needs help dealing with land mines)(Editorial)
Newspaper article from: The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR)
; ...power struggles. It's land mines. The recent destruction...tens of thousands of land mines scattered across the...mines. Before the United States went to war against...month. The threat of land mines is slowing the delivery...workers report that land mines ...
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Join in the church's campaign to rid the world of land mines.(Brief Article)(Editorial)
Magazine article from: National Catholic Reporter
; ...antipersonnel land mines. That the United States will not be...elimination of land mines in a 1994 speech...announced the United States would end its...the matter of land mines are indisputable...credit, the United States Catholic ...
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Fields of death: only days before her death, Princess Diana pleaded for an end to the use of land mines.(includes related information)
Magazine article from: Current Events, a Weekly Reader publication
; ...the human tragedy caused by exploding land mines. On more than one occasion, Diana wept...in Oslo, Norway, for a conference on land mines. As the meeting opened, the delegates...of ending the manufacture and use of land mines. We shall spare no effort at this conference...
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Banning land mines: what the U.S. can do.(Editorial)
Magazine article from: The Christian Century
; A DOCUMENTARY film on land mines first aired on British television includes...demonstrated that the chips can also be used in land mines. When Human Rights Watch first asked Motorola...unwittingly involved in the production of land mines through secondary distribution. Those sales...The ...
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