Article: Nobel Committee posturing in choice of Peace Prize winner.(Originated from KRT FORUM)

Article: Report cites global progress in eliminating land ...
National Catholic Reporter;  September 28, 2001 ;     650 words ... ... use of anti-personnel land mines has dropped around the ... eradicate anti-personnel land mines, which kill far more ... ban anti-personnel land mines, signed in December ... joined the treaty. The United States has not signed the treaty ...

Article: Princess Diana took up the cause of banning land ...
Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service;  September 3, 1997 ;     689 words ... ... innocent. It is the latter view of land mines that has caught the conscience ... countries _ and reluctantly, the United States _ to Oslo this week to develop ... communist north. But even in wartime, land mines claim a heavy toll on those who ...

Article: The new convert.(United States to join in talks for ...
The Economist (US);  August 23, 1997 ;     700+ words ... ... is now supported by no fewer than 106 countries, with the United States, which as recently as May was dismissing it as high-minded ... Plainly, the Ottawa treaty will have greater impact if the United States is among its signatories. Yet America's presence at Oslo ...

Article: REPORT CRITICIZES U.S. SUPPORT OF LAND MINES MORE ...
The Virginian Pilot;  July 30, 1997 ;     534 words ... ... or maimed in the Vietnam and Korean wars by American-made land mines, according to a report by groups seeking American support ... need for the Clinton administration to abandon its claim that land mines safeguard the lives of American troops. According to the ...

Article: United States: Novel Raytheon Computer to Play Key ...
TendersInfo;  May 2, 2009 ;     700+ words ... ... architecture depending on the application will process data in a sensor Raytheon Company is building to detect and locate buried land mines and tunnels. According to Nick Uros, vice president for Raytheon's Advanced Concepts and Technology group, the Morphable ...

Article: Constitution 'full of land mines' Bush tells VFW ...
Chicago Sun-Times;  August 23, 2005 ;     630 words ... ... dangerous. But he told the Veterans of Foreign Wars national convention the fight is necessary to keep terrorists out of the United States. Bush reminded his listeners of the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11 - - reciting the date five times. "We're not yet ...

Article: U.S. working to eliminate land mines presidential ...
Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN);  June 10, 1999 ;     700+ words ... ... 3 Even though the United States remains the biggest ... international treaty banning land mines, it has taken major ... a public forum on land mines. "The United States is on the wrong side ... International Campaign to Ban Land Mines. "We ask President ...