Word: lande
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...probably it. As with the nasty rash of shows that broke out after the first season of Friends (remember Can't Hurry Love? Pig Sty?), producers are standing in line to photocopy Touched by an Angel. But the conversion might not hold. The networks' best religious shows, Promised Land and Nothing Sacred, risk getting crushed by their heathen Thursday-night competition, Friends. Religion may be jamming the tube this season, but the young and the reckless still rule. Sinners, after all, have killer demographics...
...LAND-MINE CRUSADE
Thanks for the story about President Clinton's announcement that the U.S. will join talks on a worldwide ban of land mines [WORLD, Sept. 1]. Land mines are adversely affecting the work of such international-aid agencies as Church World Service, CARE, American Friends Service Committee and others. Land mines have made it difficult to resettle refugees, to operate agricultural and animal-husbandry programs and to provide emergency relief in many areas of the world. Aid workers, as well as students and tourists, have been injured or killed, and equipment has been destroyed. The U.N. has estimated that a land...
...agree there is an urgent need to clear land mines. In fact, the Clinton Administration has led the world's humanitarian demining initiative and has provided training and assistance to 14 countries to help develop indigenous, self-sustaining humanitarian demining programs. U.S. government agencies have spent more than $137 million for training, operations, logistical support and in-kind contributions. The Department of Defense plays a large part in the training component of this effort. We have deployed explosive-ordnance-disposal personnel and engineers to Bosnia and 11 countries in Africa, Latin America and Indochina. H. ALLEN HOLMES, Assistant Secretary...
...survivor of a land-mine incident in Goma, Zaire, in October 1995, I believe it's time that President Clinton listen to the voice of Americans regarding the use of mines. Mines are not weapons of defense, as some military types would have us believe, but weapons of genocide and terrorism. It is time that the U.S stop manufacturing, distributing and using these diabolical weapons that kill women, children and other nonaggressive people worldwide. Perhaps those who continue to support the deployment of these weapons would feel different if they had experienced what I did when a land mine blasted...