Re: DSII Question- Obstacles

At 17:02 2/18/98, Brian Burger wrote:
>Real World Interupt: What about this mine-banning treaty just signed?
The
>Princess Di one? Any chance of it surviving w/o the Yanks on-side? It's
a
>nice, idealistic document, but...

The latest Soldier of Fortune magazine came up with about the same
summation: 'Gosh what a nice idea, but none of the world's largest
mine-producing or using nations have signed on. Oh, and lets not forget
that it would take the worlds demo tech well into the next century just
to
clear out the ones already out there....'

Nasty as they may be, I seriously doubt they're going anywhere. Except
for
the self-mobile types....

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