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Princess Diana's death has refocused attention on her efforts to wipe out anti-personnel land mines. Last week Pentagon officials lamented that her demise could make it harder to keep a tiny but key portion of the U.S. mine arsenal. While most of the Pentagon grudgingly acceded to President Clinton's broader proposed ban on such mines, the elite Army GREEN BERETS and Navy SEALS are voicing private concerns that the accord the White House wants could strip a lifesaving weapon from their webbed belts. It is the aptly named "pursuit denial munition," a grenade-size explosive that when...
...saying we will still use them, because Korea is the only place they are currently in place," says Thompson. The Pentagon convinced Clinton these weapons were necessary in the DMZ as a defense against a North Korean invasion. But even that argument was somewhat transparent, according to Thompson, because anti-personnel mines are not the key deterrent in the DMZ. Since the North Koreans would be expected to invade in tanks, it is the anti-tank mines there, which are not the focus of the movement for a ban, that are most important to the Pentagon. But Clinton...
...effect, the Pentagon brushed aside the President's concerns about anti-personnel mines, betting on his reluctance in a presidential election year to confront the U.S. military and limit its use of weapons. "Clinton does not have the standing to challenge the military," Thompson says. "He was wrecked on gays in the military in 1993, and he does not want a repeat of that now." Advocates of a worldwide ban on anti-personnel mines criticized the President for failing to take a stand to eliminate a weapon that kills more than 20,000 people, mostly civilian, every year, often long...
...before the war started, Iraq distributed substantial supplies of chemical weapons along the front lines to be held for the ground war. The British also learned that Iraqi gunners were suffering from serious maintenance problems and had great difficulty getting spare parts, and that Iraqi helicopters had randomly sown anti-personnel mines along the front to harass advancing troops...
IMAGINE HERDS of wild boars (HGGPAVs), cleverly driven across Communist borders at the onset of a crisis, roaming free behind enemy lines. Heaven help the Warsaw Pact's air force! Then consider the boars' utility as anti-personnel weapons. An AK-47-toting infantryman who thinks nothing of charging fortified NATO positions will quake in his boots when he sees a ton of angry pork charging...