LETTER:Landmines ofthe Nineties
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Sir: I wonder if I am alone in being shocked at the inclusion of the Valmara 69 "Bounding" landmine in the article "The most stylish products of the Nineties?" (12 June).
Perhaps Tibor Kalman's selection and description of the land mine's destructive but elegant design was meant to be irony but it was in very poor taste.
The goal of a world without landmines would be reached more quickly by support of Cafod's campaign to ban the production, stockpiling, export and use of anti-personnel landmines than by ironic design features.
Yours faithfully,
ANNE PALMER
Leeds
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