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Unexploded Weapons Clearance Plan Progresses

By Jeff Abramson

The Department of State opened a bidding process April 29 to solicit plans for a new quick-reaction force that would be able to handle threats to civilians from unexploded cluster bombs and other explosive remnants of war (ERW).

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