<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/06/world/asia/laos-campaign-to-clear-millions-of-unexploded-bombs.html?_r=1#"><font size="1">http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/06/world/asia/laos-campaign-to-clear-millions-of-unexploded-bombs.html?_r=1#</font></a><br clear="all"></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="georgia, serif"><b>New York Times</b></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><h1 itemprop="headline" id="story-heading" class="" style="margin:0px 0px 10px"><font size="4"><font color="#000000" face="nyt-cheltenham, georgia, times new roman, times, serif"><span style="line-height:2.375rem"><i>One Woman’s Mission to Free Laos From Millions of Unexploded Bombs</i></span><span style="line-height:38px"><i><br></i></span></font></font><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:nyt-cheltenham-sh,georgia,'times new roman',times,serif;font-style:normal;line-height:12px;font-size:11px">By</span><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:nyt-cheltenham-sh,georgia,'times new roman',times,serif;font-style:normal;line-height:12px;font-size:11px"> </span><span class="" itemprop="name" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:nyt-cheltenham-sh,georgia,'times new roman',times,serif;font-style:normal;line-height:12px;font-size:11px"><a href="http://topics.nytimes.com/topics/reference/timestopics/people/f/thomas_fuller/index.html" rel="author" title="More Articles by THOMAS FULLER" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);text-decoration:none">THOMAS FULLER</a></span></h1><div style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:nyt-cheltenham-sh,georgia,'times new roman',times,serif;font-size:11px;line-height:12px">APRIL 5, 2015</span></div><div style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:georgia,'times new roman',times,serif;line-height:1.4375rem"><br></span></div><div style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:georgia,'times new roman',times,serif;line-height:1.4375rem">HOUAYKHAY, Laos — Thao Kae and his friends were foraging for their dinner, collecting the bamboo shoots that grow in the jungle a half-hour’s walk from their remote hamlet along the Mekong River. As they dug and sifted the soil, one of the boys found a small metal sphere and brought it back to a house in the village.</span></div><div style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:georgia,'times new roman',times,serif;line-height:1.4375rem"><br></span></div><div style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:georgia,'times new roman',times,serif;line-height:1.4375rem">“They thought it was a pétanque ball,” said Khamsing Wilaikaew, a 59-year-old</span><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:georgia,'times new roman',times,serif;line-height:1.4375rem"> </span><span class="" id="mqg6le_6" style="font-family:georgia,'times new roman',times,serif;line-height:1.4375rem;list-style:none;float:none;height:16px;display:inline!important;padding:0px!important;margin:0px!important;border-style:none none solid!important;border-bottom-width:1px!important;text-decoration:underline!important;color:rgb(0,153,0)!important">farmer</span><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:georgia,'times new roman',times,serif;line-height:1.4375rem">, referring to the French bowling</span><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:georgia,'times new roman',times,serif;line-height:1.4375rem"> </span><span class="" id="mqg6le_5" style="font-family:georgia,'times new roman',times,serif;line-height:1.4375rem;list-style:none;float:none;height:16px;display:inline!important;padding:0px!important;margin:0px!important;border-style:none none solid!important;border-bottom-width:1px!important;text-decoration:underline!important;color:rgb(0,153,0)!important">game</span><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:georgia,'times new roman',times,serif;line-height:1.4375rem"> </span><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:georgia,'times new roman',times,serif;line-height:1.4375rem">similar to bocce. “They were throwing it against the ground.”</span></div><div style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:georgia,'times new roman',times,serif;line-height:1.4375rem"><br></span></div><div style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:georgia,'times new roman',times,serif;line-height:1.4375rem">Four decades after it was dropped from a warplane, the metal ball, an American-made</span><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:georgia,'times new roman',times,serif;line-height:1.4375rem"> </span><a title="More articles about cluster munitions." href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/subjects/c/cluster_munitions/index.html?inline=nyt-classifier" style="font-family:georgia,'times new roman',times,serif;line-height:1.4375rem;color:rgb(50,104,145)">cluster bomb</a><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:georgia,'times new roman',times,serif;line-height:1.4375rem">, did what it was designed to do. Thao Kae, 8, was killed on the spot. Mr. Khamsing’s wife and a 9-year-old boy died of their injuries days later.</span></div></div><div><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div><font size="1"><b><span style="color:rgb(116,27,71)"><i><br></i></span></b></font></div><div><font size="1"><b><span style="color:rgb(116,27,71)"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;display:inline"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/06/world/asia/laos-campaign-to-clear-millions-of-unexploded-bombs.html?_r=1#">[more]</a></div></span></b></font></div><div><font size="1"><b><span style="color:rgb(116,27,71)"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;display:inline"><i></i></div><br></span></b></font></div><div><b style="font-size:x-small"><span style="color:rgb(116,27,71)"><i>CHUCK SEARCY</i></span></b><br></div><div><font size="1"><b><span style="color:rgb(116,27,71)"><i>Project RENEW / VFP Chapter 160<br></i></span></b></font></div><div><font size="1"><b><span style="color:rgb(116,27,71)"><i>Agent Orange Working Group<br></i></span></b></font></div><div><font size="1"><b><span style="color:rgb(116,27,71)"><i>71 Trần Quốc Toản, Hà Nội, Việt Nam</i></span></b></font></div><font size="1"><b><span style="color:rgb(116,27,71)"><i></i></span></b></font></div><font size="1"><b><span style="color:rgb(116,27,71)"><i>M +8 490 342 0769<br></i></span></b></font></div><font size="1"><b><span style="color:rgb(116,27,71)"><i>E <a href="mailto:chuckusvn@gmail.com" target="_blank">chuckusvn@gmail.com</a><br></i></span></b></font></div><i><font size="1"><b><span style="color:rgb(116,27,71)">Sk chucksearcy</span></b><br></font></i></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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