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...faces the increasingly complicated challenge of maintaining its hard-won accord with Russia over the peace process at the same time as maintaining pressure on Belgrade. "NATO won't easily suspend the bombing because it knows it may be politically unable to restart it," says TIME Pentagon correspondent Mark Thompson. "The alliance may even have been planning to intensify the bombing in the hope of making Milosevic more compliant." It had been left to Russia to coax symmetrical concessions out of NATO and Belgrade to kick-start the peace process. While the Chinese embassy bombing may make the West...
...substantial Serb withdrawal from Kosovo could wrong-foot Washington by raising pressure inside the alliance to halt the bombing. "The U.S. won't want to halt the bombing easily, especially now that the Pentagon feels it's beginning to move in their favor," says TIME Pentagon correspondent Mark Thompson. "Once halted, it will be extremely difficult to restart the air campaign." And NATO commanders will be reluctant to give up their only leverage over Belgrade this early in the endgame...
...only a partial withdrawal and a lightly armed international force excluding NATO member countries. The alliance will try to bridge that gulf by piling on the pressure. "NATO is escalating its air offensive because Belgrade had grown accustomed to the previous level of bombing," says TIME Pentagon correspondent Mark Thompson. "Escalation is designed to increase the level of discomfort in Yugoslavia." With the air campaign as the alliance's only leverage, the prelude to negotiations is likely to see NATO ratchet up rather than ease off on the bombing...
...Because we are concentrating more attention on the initiatives in the last phase of the campaign and in the years beyond, the new assistant provost will work closely with [development office] and the initiatives," Associate Provost Dennis F. Thompson wrote in an e-mail message...
...Although we hope and expect that most will have a home in one of our faculties, they all need some assistance from our office," wrote Thompson, who is director of he program in ethics and the professions...