Free Rust, European Body Urges Soviets
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STRASBOURG, France — The European Parliament today urged the Soviet Union to release Mathias Rust, the West German teen-ager sentenced to four years in a labor camp for flying a small plane into Red Square.
The body adopted a resolution saying the prison term is too harsh for the 19-year-old pilot who landed beside the Kremlin on May 28.
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