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Italian Premier Giovanni Spadolini was visiting French President Francois Mitterrand when the speech was given. Said Spadolini, upon emerging from the Elysee Palace: "The Italian and French reactions are both favorable." Concurred French Foreign Minister Claude Cheysson: "The zero solution is obviously advisable." Skeptics, however, dismissed the speech as a cynical attempt to score off the Soviets by making Moscow an offer it could not accept...
Nonetheless, antimissile sentiment began to emerge when the government, led by Republican Prime Minister Spadolini, announced publicly that Italy's contingent of 112 cruise missiles would be based outside the small southern Sicily town of Comiso. Since then, says Marco Fumagalli, 28, a leader of the Communist Youth Federation, the missiles have no longer been a "hypothetical possibility...
...other two newcomers, Italy's Spadolini, who had been in office only three weeks, and Japan's Prime Minister Zenko Suzuki, deliberately chose to play modest roles. The erudite and usually garrulous Spadolini, like Mitterrand, was outspoken only in assailing high U.S. interest rates, which he claimed had seriously jeopardized Italy's anti-inflation drive. The reticent Suzuki skillfully avoided drawing attention to himself-and thus escaped sharp criticism of his nation's selective, restrictive import policies and its aggressive overseas selling. Canada's Deputy Prime Minister MacEachen explained the reluctance of the conferees...
Reagan, said Italian Premier Giovanni Spadolini, "speaks in anecdotes and proverbs, and in this he reminds one a bit of Khrushchev." Reagan might not have relished the comparison...
Next to Reagan, the fledgling summiteer most under scrutiny by other participants was Mitterrand. He reinforced his reputation as an intellectual by carrying a volume of the Pléiade series of French classical literature to a meeting with Spadolini, who said that Mitterrand had expressed "passionate interest in quattrocento Florence." Conveying an air of lofty civility, Mitterrand came across as surprisingly moderate; he particularly impressed U.S. officials with his advocacy of a strong Western military response to the Soviet arms buildup. Mitterrand was critical of the U.S. on only one major economic point: the high American interest rates. Said...