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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Now, Super-Zero? | 4/27/1987 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: East-West: Rx Rejected | 3/12/1984 | See Source »

...other offensive threats in the Princeton singlewing attack are genuine stars in their own right. Wingback Dan Terpack is the captain, and a fine runner and pass receiver. Fullback Bill Merlini provides the power. The fourth member of the backfield, quaterback John Henrich, is considered by many the outstanding blocker in the league...

Author: By Steven V. Roberts, | Title: Crimson Seeks to Spoil Tigers' Title Hopes; Looks for Third Ivy Win After Beating Penn | 11/10/1962 | See Source »

...dead of night, Gina touchingly tells him that she is worried about her donkey. The police chief goes ruefully off to give the brute some hay. Gina of course gets the man she wants in the end, and the chief makes do with a lusty midwife (Marisa Merlini...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Oct. 4, 1954 | 10/4/1954 | See Source »

...COFFIN FOR THE CORPSE-Clayfon Rawson-Little, Brown & Co. ($2). A rich spiritualism devotee sees the ghost of a blackmailer he slugged and buried, and is later himself found slain in the locked and weaponless room of a Mamaroneck mansion. Merlini, an ex-magician with a vast fund of illusionistic lore and rare deductive skill, enters the case to help a much-involved reporter friend and remains to produce a subtle and unsuspected slayer. Superabundant-and engrossing- data about spirits, fakirs and magic slightly retard the movement of an otherwise excellent story...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Murder in July, Aug. 3, 1942 | 8/3/1942 | See Source »

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