Word: thompson
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Stewart debated topics from gun control to next year's presidential election on the episode along with author Erica Jong, NYPD Blue co-star Andrea Thompson and comedian Rob Schneider...
...missile program in exchange for economic assistance. And extortion may have actually been the objective of North Korea?s missile rattling. "They keep cranking up their threat as high as it can go and we keep paying, so why shouldn?t they?" says TIME Pentagon correspondent Mark Thompson...
Perhaps, says TIME Pentagon reporter Mark Thompson. ?These days, the military is much more likely to exert influence over social policy than over military policy. Look at what happened with Clinton?s attempt to lift the ban on gays in the military. The military exerted its political power and made it very clear that they weren?t going to tolerate his viewpoint.? Conversely, adds Thompson, debates surrounding recent military conflicts clearly demonstrate the disparity of opinions on military involvement within both the Republican and conservative camps. So while the military will probably never present a united front on potential solutions...
...Reported by James Carney and Michael Duffy/Washington and Dick Thompson with Bush
Compelling though the story may be, it could be a case of adding two and two and getting five. "Elements of this story may be true, but they don?t all fit together in a causal explanation," says TIME Pentagon correspondent Mark Thompson. "Flight plans aren?t usually that explicit. And the U.S. wasn?t sharing information on raids by stealth aircraft with its NATO allies. Pentagon thinking was that the Serbs had been filling the sky with anti-aircraft fire and unguided missiles, and they simply got lucky. There?s no doubt that information was being passed along...