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- DETAINED. Mathias Rust, 21, who made international
- headlines as a teenage pilot in May 1987 when he flew a Cessna
- 172 over 500 miles of Soviet territory to land at Moscow's Red
- Square; for an alleged assault on a student nurse; in Hamburg.
- According to police reports, Rust stabbed the nurse after she
- resisted his advances. He told interviewers this year that he
- chose civilian over military service because he was opposed to
- violence.
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