1.   Antipersonnel mines can be set off by pressure switches that activate when stepped on, trip wires or sensors that detect vibration.

2.   Clinton should be bolder, ordering an end to the American use of antipersonnel mines by the end of this decade.

3.   Ducks peck around the edges of piles of antipersonnel mines.

4.   Fearing a laundry list of such exemptions, other governments in the negotiations, including NATO allies, rejected any loosening of treaty provisions on antipersonnel mines.

5.   Lt. Gen. James Hollingsworth, a former commander in Korea, says that antipersonnel mines would actually interfere with freedom of maneuver in case of a North Korean attack.

6.   Most of the companies that produce antipersonnel mines are little known outside of their home areas, enterprises like Alliant Techsystems of Edina, Minn.

7.   Small, cheap, easily scattered and difficult to detect, antipersonnel mines are detonated by contact or by a nearby footfall.

8.   The Bush administration is now conducting a review to determine its policy on antipersonnel mines.

9.   The campaign seeks a global ban on the use, production, stockpiling, sale and export of antipersonnel mines.

10.   The Clinton administration announced Friday that it would seek to negotiate a worldwide ban on antipersonnel mines, but chose to take the slower of two diplomatic tracks.