Article: Banning land mines: what the U.S. can do.(Editorial)

A DOCUMENTARY film on land mines first aired on British television includes a scene in which a Khmer Rouge leader in Cambodia shows his troops how to take apart a land mine. According to a story in the Burlington (Vermont) Free Press, the film captures in living color a computer chip in the land mine that has an "M" for Motorola stamped on it. Motorola, an international corporation based in Schaumburg, Illinois, produces computer chips for such commercial products as washing machines and hair dryers. The film demonstrated that the chips can also be used in land mines.

When Human Rights Watch first asked Motorola for an explanation, it received none. After the ...

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