ROANOKE TIMES 
                      Copyright (c) 1995, Roanoke Times

DATE: Tuesday, December 19, 1995             TAG: 9512190065
SECTION: NATL/INTL                PAGE: A-3  EDITION: METRO 
DATELINE: WASHINGTON

WARNER, OTHERS ACCUSED OF RENEGING ON MINE BAN

Supporters of a ban on anti-personnel landmines - who threatened to hold up action on a defense bill unless Sen. John Warner, R-Va., and other senior defense committee members upheld a deal - won concessions late Monday.

Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Strom Thurmond, R-S.C., agreed to remove a provision that would have prohibited such a ban - either this year, after President Clinton vetoes the $264.7 billion defense bill and House and Senate negotiators rework it, or next year, in the 1997 authorization bill.

- Newport News Daily Press

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