Word: merlini
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Other experts believe that Gorbachev is eager for a deal primarily because it would strengthen his hand against opponents of his economic and cultural reforms within the U.S.S.R. Gorbachev, says Cesare Merlini, president of the Institute for International Affairs in Rome, is thinking mostly of winning the "power struggle within the Kremlin...
...France, Pierre Hassner of the National Foundation of Political Science disputed the practicality and timing of Kissinger's proposals, but he agreed that the problems posed are real. "Europeans have to take greater charge of their own defense," he said, "but that can come only gradually." Cesare Merlini, head of Italy's Institute for Foreign Affairs, welcomed the debate. Said he: "I don't like Kissinger's diagnosis, but I like the therapy...