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...Kosovo air campaign, and the end to the conflict seems now to depend mostly on the domestic political concerns of the key players. "Both sides are really eager to stop this now, which gives peace talks their momentum," says TIME Pentagon correspondent Mark Thompson. "Now it's a question of what both sides think they can get away with domestically -- of how much President Clinton will be able to compromise while still making the result appear to be a victory." The three key players in the diplomatic endgame -- Russian envoy Viktor Chernomyrdin, U.S. deputy secretary of state Strobe Talbott...
Berkowitz also contends that a colleague in his department, Whitehead Professor of Government Dennis F. Thompson, opposed his candidacy and was in a position to exercise undue influence over the appointment because he holds an administrative post at the University...
...Thompson serves as the University's associate provost...
...current furor has any useful purpose, it might be to remind U.S. weaponry hawks that very little of the feverish work that goes on in Los Alamos these days is actually improving America's ability to win a war. "I liken it to teenagers working on their cars," says Thompson. "It's a matter of pride to have a better, faster car with a souped-up engine that puts all your friends' to shame. But you can still get to the 7-11 in a Pacer." The U.S., you'll recall, already went to the 7-11 -- 54 years...
...this point, we're in a race with ourselves," says Thompson. "China has never desired to have a state-of-the-art nuclear arsenal -- otherwise they wouldn't be so far behind everybody else." Maybe now, says Thompson, they've caught up by a few years -- in 2002, they'll be in the 1970s, and in another decade or two they'll be where the U.S. is today. He's got a worst-case scenario, too: "The Chinese put a nuclear missile in a freighter, sail it up the Potomac, and blow it up. Who's going to care whether...