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Five of the hijackers, who were led by two brothers and their mother, died in the assault and subsequent fire aboard the jetliner on Tuesday, as did three passengers and a stewardess, Tass said. Two of the sky pirates committed suicide and the matriarch, once honored as a Hero Mother of the Soviet Union, was shot dead by family members, the official news agency said...
Eleven hijackers commandeered the Tupolev-154 jet as it was en route to Leningrad after a fueling stop in the Ural Mountains city of Kurgan, and they told the pilot to fly to London, Tass said. It identified them as the Ovechkins, a family musical group from Irkutsk, the southern Siberian city where the flight originated...
...Eyewitnesses pointed to three leaders among the criminal team--Vasily and Oleg Ovechkin and their mother Ninel Ovechkin, a plump, fashionably dressed woman of over 50," Tass said...
Soviet TV interrupted a serial film to broadcast Gorbachev's statement, assuring that his remarks would have the widest distribution. It was carried on the official Tass news agency and was the lead item on the evening TV news...
Gorbachev's admonition, delivered Jan. 8 to Soviet editors and published last week by TASS, was another clear sign that his reform drive is running into stiff opposition. His economic restructuring program, known as perestroika, entered a bold new phase on New Year's Day, when 60% of Soviet industry was put on a "self-financing" basis. The new system allows enterprises to decide what to produce and where to sell it, but it also requires them to earn a profit or go out of business. Those elements of capitalist-style risk taking are frighteningly foreign to managers accustomed...