Word: jacchia
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...defense, politics and economics-where the experts engaged in stimulating, sometimes heated, debate. At a final plenary meeting, members of the groups shared conclusions. The sessions were supplemented by freewheeling conversation over coffee, cocktails and meals. "It's just remarkable the people who are here," observed Enrico Jacchia, director of the Italian Center of Strategic Studies. "If we'd had some more meetings like this in the past, we would never have had a dispute over sanctions," said U.S. Trade Ambassador William Brock, referring to last year's dispute over the Soviet gas pipeline to Western Europe...
...Reagan Administration's hard line toward Moscow, also feel uncomfortable about leaving out the British and French forces. Among them are a number of Socialist politicians, including West German Social Democratic Arms Spokesman Egon Bahr and Denis Healey, deputy leader of the British Labor Party. Says Enrico Jacchia, director of the Italian Center for Strategic Studies in Rome: "A large part of public opinion in Europe feels that the French nuclear force exists, and the effect of saying it should not be counted causes confusion. People think the Americans are playing a trick...
Other West Europeans hope that Andropov's ascendancy will break the pattern of worsening East-West relations. Says Enrico Jacchia, director of Rome's Center of Strategic Studies: "Our colleagues in the Soviet Union who were in close contact with Andropov before Brezhnev's death have often spoken of him as a focal point for more flexible East-West relations." Jacchia, like many Europeans, fears that Washington may pass up an opportunity to exploit openings. "Clearly, there is something new beginning to move in Moscow. Will Reagan and his people react positively to this...
...Washington strongly accused Libyan authorities of allowing it. "Civilized countries have no possibility of retaliation, because to arrest the envoy of an offending power in return is alien to our concepts," Italian Diplomat Ducci complains. "Why do we then continue to offer hostages to imams and to fortune?" Enrico Jacchia, a noted Italian political scientist, is somewhat more philosophical: "We assumed that the Western principle of diplomatic immunity could be applied everywhere in the Third World. In other words we wanted to export our way of life?and it didn't work...