billlll
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Wed Oct-20-10 04:31 PM
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70 000 000 unexploded bomblets still in Laos |
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Edited on Wed Oct-20-10 04:35 PM by billlll
Dropped by US duRing Viet war.
One-half of one percent removed so far. On Bourdain food show, Travel Channel right now.
Seventy million to be cleared!
Golf ball size, seem to have been from cluster bombs...isn't there some sort of movement to ban cluster bombs?
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Wed Oct-20-10 04:53 PM
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1. i find that horribly upsetting..for many, many reasons, including that my son is there on vacation. |
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Wed Oct-20-10 05:22 PM
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2. Consequently, tiny Laos has the most amputees in Asia. |
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