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Article: `Ban mines,' activists urge Clinton, Congress.(protesters want U.S. to sign Mine Ban Treaty and cease the use of land mines)(Brief Article)
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- National Catholic Reporter
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- July 28, 2000
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Forty thousand post cards from Belgium were on their way to the White House, and 100 activists from around the United States were in the nation's capital July 9-11 to prod the Clinton administration and Congress to move more quickly on signing the international convention against land mines.
"Six years from now isn't good enough," said land mine survivor Jerry White, referring to President Clinton's claim that the United States will sign the treaty by 2006, providing the Pentagon has developed alternatives to anti-personnel mines. White, director of the Landmines Survivors Network, said Clinton reneged on his 1994 call before the United Nations for the eventual ...