NATION IN BRIEF : WASHINGTON, D.C. : Army Discharges 6 Who Fled Germany

Six U.S. soldiers who were arrested in Florida for leaving their military intelligence post in West Germany and who told friends they were going to rendezvous with UFOs were discharged from the Army. The six soldiers--five men and a woman--fled their post at the 701st Military Intelligence Brigade in Augsburg, West Germany, on July 9 and were arrested near Pensacola, Fla., four days later. An Army counterintelligence investigation did not turn up any evidence of espionage activity. The six, according to their friends, believed the end of the world was near and that Jesus Christ was going to arrive on a Pensacola beach on a UFO to take believers to heaven.