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Valued exposure: Soviet leader

Mikhail Gorbachev and Ronald Reagan in Geneva

On 11 March 1985 Mikhail Gorbachev became the new leader of the Soviet Union following the death of Konstantin Chernenko.

Later that year he met US president Ronald Reagan at the so-called fireside summit in Geneva. The talks were frank but friendly and the two sides pledged to make the world a safer place.

But there was deadlock over Mr Reagan's dream of a space-based Strategic Defence Initiative, popularly known as Star Wars.

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