Near White House, Easter Hunt Planned for Fake Bombs

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WASHINGTON - Seven-year-old Alvin Mitchell worked intently on what looked to be a blue balloon wrapped around a tennis ball. It was a fake version of a cluster bomb, and the real thing, he pronounced, can "blow you up and kill you."

The fake bombs Alvin and a dozen other children were making Thursday at a peace workshop will be put to use Monday in Lafayette Square. As hundreds attend the White House Easter Egg Roll on the South Lawn, a smaller group will gather at the park on the north side for what is being billed as a "family-friendly Easter cluster- bomb hunt."

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Near White House, Easter Hunt Planned for Fake Bombs

It used to be that an Easter egg hunt was just an Easter egg hunt. It had no message beyond cute kids playing with colored eggs.

Now the Whit...

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