Word: samantha
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Samantha the lobster also went...
...Army, 45-28 URI, 28-21 Yale, 10-7 Dartmouth, 27-14 Princeton, 14-10 Cornell, 14-10 Mercedes Wagner Miss Massachusetts Guest Selector Harvard, 21-14 Columbia, 21-7 Penn, 21-14 URI, 14-7 Yale, 21-7 UNH, 17-7 Princeton, 14-0 Colgate, 14-10 Samantha 27-lb, Lobster, Bay State Lobsters Guest Selector Harvard, 31-17 Lafayette, 24-14 Army, 33-26 Brown, 21-10 Yale, 28--14 Dartmouth, 17-3 Lehigh, 24-22 Cornell...
...DIED. Samantha Smith, 13, Maine student whose 1982 letter to Soviet Leader Yuri Andropov asking how he would "help to not have a war" brought her international celebrity as a peace envoy; with her father and six other people in the crash of a commuter plane; in Auburn, Me. Andropov's unexpected reply included an invitation to come and see for herself how much the Soviet people wanted peace. She did, on a much publicized two-week tour of the U.S.S.R. in the summer of 1983. That trip led to TV talk-show appearances, interviews with adults on a children...
...organs. One wall poster currently displayed in Moscow shows a grim image of a U.S. monster threatening to rain down bombs from outer space. Overseas, disinformation remains a favorite tactic; the Kremlin rarely overlooks an opportunity to plant a false rumor. While grieving last week over the death of Samantha Smith, the American girl who visited the U.S.S.R. on a peace mission at the invitation of Yuri Andropov in 1983, the Soviet media hinted that her plane crashed as a result of foul play. No lie is too big: the news agency TASS blithely reported last October that the Pentagon...
Some people graduate from Hollywood to superpower negotiations. Samantha Smith, 12, is doing it the other way around. Ever since Soviet Leader Yuri Andropov replied to her letter about world peace with an invitation to Moscow in 1983, the schoolgirl from Manchester, Me., has basked in international celebrity, chatting on TV talk shows and lecture podiums from New York to Tokyo, and writing a book about her peace initiative (Journey to the Soviet Union). Now Miss Smith is going to Hollywood. Starting later this month she will be filming the pilot of a new TV series called 55 Lime Street...