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To: MNI who wrote (12271)	6/17/1999 8:27:00 AM
From: Les H	Respond to of 17770

From the article: The United States has been a leading opponent of another proposed international agreement to establish eighteen as a minimum age for recruitment and participation in armed conflict. The United States is one of a minority of countries that still recruits minors, although it has fewer than 7,000 minors in its 1.5 million active duty force. Five years of United Nations-sponsored negotiation have failed to produce a comprehensive ban on the use of child soldiers, largely due to U.S. opposition. Becker said the United States was sacrificing strong international protections for children in order to protect its own military recruitment policies. "Recruits under the age of eighteen are a neglible part of the U.S. armed forces," she said. "There's no reason that thousands of children around the world should be at risk, just so the Pentagon won't be inconvenienced."