Children’s March Seeks Ban on Mines

A group of schoolchildren bundled up 20,000 postcards from children in Afghanistan, whose crayon drawings depicted the horrors of land mines, and delivered them to the White House, hoping to persuade President Clinton to sign an international treaty this week banning the explosive devices. “Sign the land mine treaty!” a group of about 80 youngsters from the Afghan Academy, a cultural education program in Annandale, Va., chanted as they marched to the White House and then the New Executive Office Building to drop off the postcards. The Afghanistan Campaign to Ban Landmines spent a year raising public awareness about the anti-land mine campaign and collecting the postcards.