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...triggering an even more terrible riot if they called off the match, Belgian officials and members of the Union of European Football Associations decided that it should be played. "Call it a surrender to fear if you wish," said Association Treasurer Jo Van Marle. Italian Prime Minister Benedetto ("Bettino") Craxi, in Moscow for discussions with Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev, telephoned Belgian Prime Minister Wilfried Martens after the riot to protest the decision. Said Martens: "I told him that the decision to begin play was taken purely for reasons of security." The crowd, which was largely unaware of the magnitude...
...days later, in talks with another visitor, Italian Prime Minister Benedetto Craxi, Gorbachev delivered an even blunter message. U.S. refusal to halt the Star Wars program, he warned, could lead to not only "the subversion of the Geneva talks but the scrapping of every prospect for an end to the arms race...
...that represented Moscow's stick, Gorbachev also held out a carrot. At a dinner for Craxi, Gorbachev called for a revival of "the spirit, the atmosphere and the essence of detente" and promised that "the (arms reduction) proposals made by us some time ago are still standing." He renewed an offer to shrink the number of Europe-based Soviet missiles to 162, equal to that of British and French nuclear missiles; he also revived a 1983 proposal to freeze Soviet intermediate-range-missile deployment in Asia if nuclear cuts could be achieved in Europe. The U.S. has previously rejected both...
...Pershing II and cruise missiles. But Moscow apparently thinks it worth another try. Brandt, whose Social Democratic Party opposes the Star Wars plan, offered Gorbachev some comfort by suggesting that the Geneva talks would go nowhere until the superpowers agree that space weapons and nuclear-missiles issues are "interrelated." Craxi, for his part, cautioned the Soviet leader against taking hard positions and proposed that the three subjects under discussion in Geneva -- space weapons, strategic nuclear arms and Europe-based intermediate-range missiles -- could be approached at differing speeds...
...with President Francois Mitterrand, after which Spokesman Michel Vauzelle said that France "can develop its commercial exchanges" with Nicaragua. But other officials suggested that France, which already runs a $7 million trade deficit with Nicaragua, was not anxious to increase it. In Rome, Italian Prime Minister Benedetto ("Bettino") Craxi agreed to maintain Italy's current $70 million combination of aid and trade with Managua...