The World - News from Sept. 4, 1986

Senior U.S. and Soviet officials meeting to discuss the conflict in Afghanistan held businesslike talks in Moscow and completed their agenda a day early, U.S. Embassy officials said. The two sides exchanged views at the talks, which officials said were not intended to negotiate an end to the seven-year-old conflict. The one-day meeting, originally scheduled for two, was the latest in a series aimed at laying the groundwork for a superpower summit later this year.