40 years ago October 13, 1986: Big Two summit ends

This is the front page of The Indian Express published on October 13, 1986.
By: Editorial
2 min readOct 13, 2026 06:53 AM IST First published on: Oct 13, 2026 at 06:40 AM IST
US Secretary of State George Shultz said the two-day US-Soviet talks in Iceland had ended with no new agreement on arms control and no date had been set for a new formal summit. Speaking at a news conference, he said the mini-summit had stalled over the issue of Reagan’s “Star Wars” space defence programme.
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