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...take part in the talks, and the U.S. is demanding that an exception be made to allow it to continue using mines on the border between North and South Korea. Also, the Pentagon wants a major exception that would permit the military to continue intermingling antipersonnel mines with antitank mines to prevent enemy troops from approaching and easily disabling the larger mines. Clinton's decision to join the Ottawa process came abruptly, less than a week after the Pentagon was patiently explaining that the U.S. wouldn't join because the talks "do not involve other countries that have huge inventories...
...fallout from September's miniwar between Israelis and Palestinians continues. Israeli intelligence reports that Yasser Arafat's security forces, worried about another armed confrontation, are working around the clock to obtain an arsenal of antitank and antiaircraft missiles--weapons they are forbidden to have under the Oslo accords. The arms would give Palestinian forces a more credible response to the tanks and attack helicopters that the Israeli army deployed last time. Palestinian security officials deny any official involvement in weapons smuggling but acknowledge that their forces already possess dozens of LAW antitank missiles confiscated from or donated by local Islamic...
...HONSINGER, 48, Arlington, Texas On Sept. 11, 1966, Honsinger was manning a .50-cal. machine gun in an armored personnel carrier when it came under heavy enemy fire. An antitank rocket blew off most of Honsinger's right arm, and military papers say he died that day. A police lieutenant, Honsinger finally visited the memorial three weeks ago and saw his name on panel 10E, line 86. "I had some people around [his name on the wall] that I knew. I'm glad I wasn't killed over there, of course. But it gave me a hollow feeling...
...Embassy in Athens that barely missed its target. "Until now no organization has claimed responsibility," the anti-terrorism department said in a statement. "But the action and the material used point directly to November 17." November 17 is the only Greek guerrilla group to have used antitank missiles. TIME's Anthee Carassavas reports that the leftist movement it supports is still rankling over U.S. intervention after Greece and Turkey came to the brink of war last month over claims to a small by symbolic islet in the south Aegan sea. "This comes amid a period of rising anti-American sentiment...
Earlier last week, three British soldiers met their deaths when they drove over an antitank mine. But this was the first American killed while serving in Bosnia. While that may not carry with it any special index of tragedy, it does score a notch on the emotional yardstick by which Americans gauge whether their government's latest foreign policy venture is worth its perils...