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(Tuesday, November 19, 1985, 10:02 a.m. Central European Time; during the Cold War) — U.S. President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev met today for the first time as they began their summit in Geneva in what the two sides described as a “good atmosphere.”

The much-heralded encounter, the first between Soviet and American leaders in six years, included two conversations with only interpreters present.