11.   His engineering company rebuilt roads and removed mines.

12.   Mines have been removed from the treacherous main road, the so-called highway of death.

13.   Still, governments and private organizations have been doing a massive job of removing mines.

14.   The Defense Department is teaching officials in several countries how to detect and remove mines.

15.   The Democratic senator believes the site is well-suited for testing new equipment and techniques for removing mines from the ground.

16.   The mine is removed eventually, but that takes time.

17.   The State Department typically uses the Defense Department or private companies to train local people to remove mines.

18.   The task of removing the mines from Nicaragua and neighboring Honduras was complicated when floods and mudslides associated with Mitch shifted mapped areas where explosives had been deployed.

19.   The two prerequisites for U.N. assistance are consent by national authorities and security for U.N. personnel when removing mines in militarily sensitive areas.

20.   U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan pledged U.N. support for the treaty and for ongoing efforts to remove existing mines.