Word: hassner
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Though Brezhnev is not exactly an "economic mendicant dressed up as a military giant"-the acerbic description of him by French Political Scientist Pierre Hassner-he has high personal stakes in the summit. Indeed, they may be higher than Nixon's. As the architect of what he calls a "peace program" of détente, Brezhnev has gone further than any other Moscow ruler since the Bolshevik Revolution in seeking a normal relationship with the West...
...would be easy to say that the latest wave of terrorism will worsen until it results in a political revolution somewhere," says Political Scientist Hassner. "That has often been the historical case. But, then, who could have predicted that suddenly there would be no more black riots in the U.S.? Political terror is an obscure phenomenon, whose eruption and recession are without immediate explanation." The new terrorism may fade in time, but European security chiefs have no choice but to take a more pessimistic view. Stockholm is building a new passenger terminal at Arlanda Airport, for instance, that will have...