Japan firm displays anti-land mine machine in Nicaragua.MEXICO CITY Mexico City Spanish Ciudad de México City (pop., 2000: city, 8,605,239; 2003 metro. area est., 18,660,000), capital of Mexico. Located at an elevation of 7,350 ft (2,240 m), it is officially coterminous with the Federal District, which occupies 571 sq mi , Sept. 17 Kyodo A Japanese Japanese (jăp'ənēz`), language of uncertain origin that is spoken by more than 125 million people, most of whom live in Japan. There are also many speakers of Japanese in the Ryukyu Islands, Korea, Taiwan, parts of the United States, and firm presented its weapon in the fight against land mines Monday when it displayed an anti-land mine machine to a group including Nicaraguan President Arnoldo Aleman at a military facility in Managua ahead of a land mine meeting to begin Tuesday in the Nicaraguan capital. ''We would like to make contributions to eliminate land mines from this country soon,'' said Kiyoshi Amemiya, president of Yamanashi Hitachi Construction Machinery Co., referring to the some 65,000 land mines which remain buried bur·y tr.v. bur·ied, bur·y·ing, bur·ies 1. To place in the ground: bury a bone. 2. a. To place (a corpse) in a grave, a tomb, or the sea; inter. b. in Nicaragua since civil strife in the 1980s. The company demonstrated the machinery, which was independently developed over five years from 1995, in front of about 550 people. The machine digs into soil using a high-speed revolving cutter cutter, small, one-masted sailing vessel, with a rig similar to that of a sloop except that it usually has a sliding bowsprit and a topmast. From 1800 to 1830 cutters were in service between England and France. placed at the end of the arm of a hydraulic shovel car, causing the land mine to explode (1) To break down an assembly into its component pieces. Contrast with implode. (2) To decompress data back to its original form. when the shovel car touches the fuse, company officials said. It can remove land mines about 20 times faster than by hand, the officials said. Two such machines have already been delivered to Nicaragua on grants-in-aid from Japan. The Third Meeting of States Parties to the 1997 Mine Ban Treaty will be held through Friday. |
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