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Land Mine Killing Allowed for Another Decade
The over 100-million land mines buried in fields throughout the world kill
more than 200,000 people a year, many of them children. A May 3 Geneva
Conference on Conventional Weapons timidly refused to outlaw them now, insisting
instead that they should be "abolished in ten years." A stunning victory for
cowardice and shame! In a recent policy decision, President Clinton, while
professing his desire to ban "these terrible weapons," actually authorized their
continued use "in confrontation areas."
Senator Leahy (Vt.) condemned the decision. "This is a failure of U.S.
leadership," he said. "[It] is an attempt by the Pentagon to keep using an
indiscriminate, exceptionally cruel weapon that does not belong in the arsenal
of civilized nations."
Bravo, Senator. But pray tell, what weapons do "belong in the arsenal of
civilized nations"? Nuclear?
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