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Gorbachev had demonstrated his clout four weeks before the plenum by taking swift action against the military in the wake of West German Pilot Mathias Rust's spectacular landing just outside Red Square. When the Hamburg teenager's single-engine Cessna penetrated some 400 miles of Soviet airspace with impunity, Gorbachev immediately sacked Defense Minister Sergei Sokolov and Air Defense Chief Alexander Koldunov. In addition to giving the country an object lesson in the personal accountability of those in power -- and demonstrating the military's subservience to the political leadership -- Gorbachev seized the occasion to place a reform-minded ally...
...movies end with a fade because to show what follows is to demystify what precedes. Imagine Gary Cooper and Grace Kelly raising chickens and changing diapers in a High Noon sequel (Quarter to Four ?). You can't. "How dull it is to pause, to make an end, to rust unburnished," laments Tennyson's Ulysses after his return home from heroism to sit "by this still hearth, among these barren crags...
...demonstrating that a single piece of machinery worth several thousand dollars can successfully penetrate a defense system costing billions of dollars ((WORLD, June 15)), young Mathias Rust of West Germany has opened a new chapter in military history. The tragedy of the U.S.S. Stark and Rust's daring flight prove that our high-tech weapons systems cannot be relied on. Why buy Star Wars when all it takes is a simple Cessna...
Three weeks after West German Flyer Mathias Rust's daring touchdown outside the Kremlin, another Soviet air-defense official joined the list of the unemployed. Rust's flight was quickly followed by the ouster of Defense Minister Sergei Sokolov and Air Defense Chief Alexander Koldunov. Last week a report in Red Star, the Defense Ministry newspaper, announced the replacement of Marshal Anatoly Konstantinov, commanding officer of the Moscow air-defense district. Four high-ranking officers had been expelled from the Communist Party, Red Star added, and other party members would soon be asked to account for their "irresponsibility...
...Pilot Rust, held in Moscow's Lefortovo Prison, was permitted to receive two visits from his parents Karl-Heinz and Monika Rust. At week's end, however, no quick resolution of his case was in sight; young Rust may still have to stand trial for violating Soviet airspace...