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Title:USA: Samantha Smith, Peace Mission Schoolgirl, Dies In Crash
Date:28th August 1985
Summary:Samantha Smith, the US schoolgirl who led a peace mission to the USSR after writing to the late Soviet Yuri Andropov, died in an air crash on August 28. A message of condolence from Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev was read at her funeral service.
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Location:USA AUGUSTA MAINE
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