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Subject to Debate

Pollitt, Katha | July 12, 1999 issue

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The article discusses various socio-political issues. "Regret to Inform," a documentary by Barbara Sonneborn about American and Vietnamese widows of the Vietnam War, is discussed. Sonneborn meant to tell a moving story about the losses women endure in war, about their strength of character and hopes for peace. The U.S. government, which could easily spend some of its vast stores of humanitarian energy dismantling the landmines and leftover bombs which still kill or maim about a thousand people every year, won't even sign the antilandmine convention.

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SOCIAL problems; DOCUMENTARY films; SONNEBORN, Barbara; WAR; PEACE; HUMANITARIAN assistance
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