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In spite of the uproar he created by landing his Cessna Skyhawk 172 on the edge of Moscow's Red Square two weeks ago, there were signs that the Soviets might deal leniently with Mathias Rust, 19, the newly famous West German aviator. No less an insider than Valentin Falin...
Out of the plane, a blue-and-white Cessna Skyhawk 172, stepped Mathias Rust, 19, a computer operator and amateur pilot from Hamburg, West Germany. While the authorities debated what to do with him, Rust coolly signed autographs for the crowd, adding the words HAMBURG-MOSCOW. Shortly afterward he was...
The landing on the White House lawn may have had little long-term impact on U.S. policy of any sort. But Mathias Rust's 16-day joyride, having already shaken the Soviet defense establishment, could have some enduring consequences for the Kremlin -- and the West.
Mathias' 1980 re-election campaign cost $841,000, an amount he found indecent. Told that he would have to raise $4 million this year, he balked. "You know," Mathias observes, "Barry Goldwater said a couple of years ago that all of this money is a crisis of liberty. That was...
The Senate of today, Mathias believes, has lost its mission. "We are trying to do more things than we have ever done before. It is a serious, serious problem to get 100 people in the Senate so organized that they can really pay attention to these subjects. We are writing...