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...Sheremetyevo airport on a flight to Leningrad. Readers did not learn how many people died (Western estimates range from 52 to 72), nor were they told that it was the fifth major Aeroflot crash this year. Still, the announcement was rare confirmation that the world's largest, least-known airline is far from perfect...
...peninsula. Even in its conventional passenger service, Aeroflot, with airports in 3,500 Soviet cities and towns and links to 70 foreign countries, from Peru to Benin, operates on a scale no other line can match. It carries more than twice as many passengers as United Air Lines, the largest U.S. carrier-roughly twice the number carried by all major Western European lines combined...
Experts believe the burglary was the largest art theft in history
...built on only 10,000 acres, and plans to continue developing its land over the next 25 years with nearly $10 billion worth of houses and commercial and industrial complexes. When the expansion is completed, the ranch will have 400,000 residents and be the country's largest master-planned urban setting. Says an executive of one company that has been bidding for Irvine: "For the rest of the century, all we can see on those 80,000 debt-free acres is growth, growth, growth...
...Atlantic Richfield in the newspaper business is Robert O. Anderson, 59, Arco's chairman. A part-time cattleman (his 1 million acres of ranch land make him one of the nation's largest individual landowners), philanthropist and self-styled student of social problems, Anderson is chairman of the Aspen Institute for Humanistic Studies, a social science think tank with offices round the world...