Word: thompson
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...Green party, the junior partner in Chancellor Schroeder's coalition government, called for a temporary halt to bombing to give diplomacy a chance. "The administration is emphasizing the plight of the refugees in order to stop an ebb in public support for the bombing," says TIME Pentagon correspondent Mark Thompson. "The public isn't opposed to the bombing as long as we aren't taking casualties, but they won't let it go on forever...
...peace process: Moscow wants a simultaneous Yugoslav withdrawal and cessation of NATO's bombing, but NATO won't stop bombing until Belgrade backs down on a number of fronts. "Milosevic can't end the bombing simply by appearing to meet some single, minimum requirement," says TIME Pentagon correspondent Mark Thompson. "NATO won't allow him to get away with half measures...
...designed to prepare the Serbs for a compromise by Milosevic. For NATO, the political dynamic may be getting easier, with 50 days of continual attacks having made the Western public more accustomed to the air war over Kosovo. "The key thing there is lack of casualties," says Thompson. "As in the slow-simmering war over Iraq, the West can endure as long there aren't boys coming home in body bags." Serb media stunts won't change that. Besides, CNN revealed Thursday that it had lost $1.1 million in equipment during this war, some bombed by NATO but most confiscated...
While this wouldn't be the path I'd take, experts say it's a perfectly reasonable response. Find your own comfort level, and enforce it. Use your eyes and your gut. If you sense something's agitating your kids, intervene. Michael Thompson, a Boston-based clinical psychologist specializing in children and adolescents, asks parents, "Is the violence that a boy is enacting on Nintendo translating into his daily life? Is he more aggressive when he's playing, or meaner to his brother, or less respectful of his parents? Then you have to put limits...
...Reported by James Carney, Elaine Shannon, Mark Thompson, Karen Tumulty and Douglas Waller/Washington