Volume 45, Number 17 · November 5, 1998
The Landmines Ban & Its Discontents
By John Ryle
The History of Landmines
by Mike Croll
Leo Cooper (To be published in the US in November by Combined Books), 164 pp., £18.95
In the furor over the publication of the US government manual on the Joys of Oral Sex it's possible that the following event in the diplomatic calendar escaped your attention: in September Burkina Faso became the fortieth country to ratify the Ottawa Convention, the international agreement that forbids the manufacture, use, transfer, and stockpiling of antipersonnel mines—that outlaws everything other than digging them up and destroying them.
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