Cause of Scott Baio, of course!" she laughed. "I mean, my only request was that she bring back his autograph. And she did!" Sadly, Samantha Smith's life ended only two years after her trip to the ...

PORTLAND, Maine — The recent changes sweeping Eastern Europe and the warming relations between the two superpowers are a bold contrast to the tensions six years ago when a little girl from Maine ...

In 1982, amid the tensions of the Cold War, a 10-year-old American named Samantha Smith wrote a letter to Soviet leader Yury Andropov, asking: "Why do you want to conquer the world or at least our ...

Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. AUGUSTA — Samantha Smith, just 10 years old and a fifth-grader at Manchester Elementary School when she wrote a letter ...