The World - News from Sept. 25, 1987
West German pilot Mathias Rust, who was sentenced earlier this month to four years in a labor camp for landing his light plane in Moscow’s Red Square, has appealed for a pardon, the official Tass news agency said. Tass, quoting Foreign Ministry spokesman Boris D. Pyadyshev, said Rust submitted his appeal to the nation’s parliament, the Supreme Soviet. Rust has yet to begin his labor camp term.
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