TITLE

The sweep of land mines

PUB. DATE

November 1993

SOURCE

U.S. News & World Report;11/29/93, Vol. 115 Issue 21, p12

SOURCE TYPE

Periodical

DOC. TYPE

Article

ABSTRACT

Focuses on the numbers of land mines, deadly reminders of wars past, which kill or injure 150 people a week worldwide, most of them civilians. United Nations General Assembly calls for a halt in land mine sales; United States legislation on land mine exports and funding for mine removal; Countries that produce land mines; Cost of land mines; Cost of removal.

ACCESSION #

9311247507

 

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