European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 20, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                A distraught woman is hold Back by two Man near Moscow a Ukraine hotel As she attempts to stand in front of a tank and cries a people Stop the tanks Quot rear up Roar by James Rosen United press International any muscovites showed monday that after six years of change they Are no longer afraid of brute Force. When tanks and armoured personnel carriers rumbled into the soviet capital after the coup against Mikhail s. Gorbachev people put up barricades to Block their Way pulled trolley buses across their paths and showered Oral abuse on the bewildered Young soldiers inside the military vehicles. Russian women strode into the Middle of Moscow s Central Kalinin Avenue and upbraided uncomprehending Young soviet conscripts in their tanks warning them not to dare open fire against their own people. Quot this is a horrible disgrace Quot said 51-year-old Lyudmila Medvedeva. Quot it s insulting to the Point of tears. I just want to  the president of the russian Republic Boris Yeltsin who won the hearts of muscovites five years ago As the City s anti establishment communist chief jumped atop a tank in front of his government building on the Moscow River and urged the soldiers to disobey their orders. Just before the Bright morning Sunshine gave Way to afternoon rain dozens of tanks and personnel carriers rolled toward the Kremlin along Kutuzov sky Prospect it s simply a communist coup we won t stand for it a Alexander my Hin a Yeltsin supporter drowning out other sounds with their Low throated roars filling the air with exhaust fumes and slicing up the Asphalt with their tread. Thousands of people rushed to Maneth Square the giant Plaza outside the Kremlin where pro democracy rallies in the Gorbachev Reform Era have made it a Symbol of Freedom. Quot this is the Square where we have waged a peaceful revolution a Moscow City Council member Valery Fadeyev yelled through a bullhorn. Quot let this be the last place of Freedom in our  the crowd roared Quot fascism will not win Quot and Quot strike strike Quot in response to Yeltsin s Appeal for a nationwide general strike to begin tuesday. A clusters of people read Fuz Zily mimeographed copies of the strike Appeal taped to pillars and Telephone poles around downtown Moscow with the approaches to nearby red Square blocked by Soldier filled buses the protesters commandeered trolley buses to Block the main radial streets that converge in the Center of Moscow. An officer at the head of one column shouted a the soviet army does not kill its people Quot and removed the ammunition clip from his pistol. Onlookers watched the spontaneous demonstrations from balconies at the hotel moskva the hotel National and. Goslan. Blo Klong Headquarters for the communist Central economic planning Agency. A few protesters defiantly thrust aloft posters of Andrei Sakharov the late physicist and human rights activist widely viewed As his nation s conscience even before his death in december 1989. At Maneth Square and on the capitals main streets angry citizens confronted soldiers who pleaded that they were Only doing their jobs the people surrounded the tanks and armoured personnel carriers shouting Quot you should defend the people Quot and Quot you re violating the soviet  some people put Flowers into the tank turrets recalling the 1986 Quot people s Power Quot revolution in the Philippines and the 1989 Tiana men Square pro democracy uprising in China. Children even Cia bored onto a few tanks and Young demonstrators climbed atop other armoured vehicles. One woman held an umbrella Over herself and the head of a colonel who emerged from his truck to talk with her. Quot our task Here is to prevent bloodshed and disorder Quot he told the woman. With state run television in the hands of the right Wing clique that toppled Gorbachev people held transistor radios to their ears As they Rode buses or walked along the Street listening to local stations still broadcasting reasonably accurate news accounts Yeltsin supporters blocked the roads leading to his russian Republic government Headquarters with Iron grates Cement blocks barbed wire and other materials. A woman in business clothes joined other protesters carrying Long Metal tubes from a construction site at the Mir hotel to a barricade. The barricades forced some military vehicles to turn Back while dusk fell in the soviet capital. One Soldier a cigarette dangling from his Mouth sat on a Bench in the Back of a truck and held a Gray Puppy in his arms. As his truck drove away the Soldier smiled and called out to the protesters Don t worry. We wont shoot  Page 8 c the stars and stripes tuesday August 20, 1991 to excises Benefit the shoulders Back and Abdomen sports drinks do they really help by Barry Meier the new York times anew scientific study has reignited debate Over the value of so called sports drinks beverages like gatorade that replace the body s fluids and minerals after exercise. The report issued in june by the army s Institute of environmental Medicine in Natick mass., said that if people exercise moderately and eat a balanced diet they have nothing to gain by drinking sports drinks instead of water. Quot for the average person who goes out for an hour to play Tennis there is no need for these beverages Quot said or. Michael  of the Institute s division of Thermal physiology and Medicine. But sports drinks do Benefit people who exercise strenuously for More than an hour at a time said Sawka and other researchers interviewed recently. And if you done to like to drink water a sports drink is still far better for you than a carbonated beverage they agreed. Quot carbonation fills you up with Gas and reduces the amount you drink a said or. Edward Coyle a professor of physiology at the University of Texas is Austin and a consultant to Quaker v Oats co., which makes gatorade. As americans become More interested in exercise consumption of sports drinks has taken off rising from $217 million in wholesale sales in 1985 to an estimated $631 million in 1990, according to beverage marketing corp. In new York. Gatorade leads Industry sales but has Many competitors such As 10-k. Most sports drinks have essentially the same ingredients water sugar Salt and potassium. Water rehydrate the body after exercise sugar provides carbohydrates for Energy sail helps retain water and potassium helps muscle function. Some sports drinks derive their carbohydrates from fruit juices. Drinking about two quarts of water daily is adequate for most people and carbohydrates and minerals Are found in a balanced diet said Sawka the army research Erin the army study volunteers walked on treadmills in a heated room Over a 13-hour period alternating Between 45 minutes of walking and 45 minutes of rest. Half the volunteers drank Flavoured water the other half a sports drink similar to gatorade. The volunteers body temperatures and blood sugar Levels among other things were monitored during the exercise and no differences were found Between the two groups Sawka said Robert Murray director of the exercise physiology Laboratory for Quaker Oats said the beverage used by army researchers was different enough from gatorade to Rule out direct comparisons. Quot the nutrient beverage they used has about one third the carbohydrates Quot that gatorade has he said. But Murray agreed that for an individual doing moderate exercise like casually jogging for 50 minutes any benefits of gatorade Over water Are not Clear. Quot under those conditions you could rehydrate Well with water Quot he said. Coyle of the University of Texas concurred. Quot the big problem is that most people Don t drink enough water a he said. Water and the body s ability to retain it Are critical during exercise because dehydration can be Laval. During an hour s jog for example the body loses about a quart of water through perspiration which also contains Salt Coyle said. If a person drinks Only water after exercising and does not have adequate Salt in the body about half the volume of any water consumed will be lost in the urine Over the next two hours he said. The caffeine in Coffee and some soft drinks speeds the elimination of urine. Sports drinks Are one Way to retain water. Another is to drink water and snack on a Small bag of salted pretzels for those who exercise strenuously running or Riding a bicycle for two hours for example the sugar in sports drinks can provide an Energy boost experts said. The drinks May also be of some Benefit it you exercise for one hour Stop a while and then exercise strenuously again. But for most people the critical Factor said Coyle and others is drinking enough water particularly on summer s hottest Days Quot people tend not to drink As much water As we need because we have to drink More than the minimal amount needed to satisfy us Quot Coyle said Quot think that people who exercise during the Day wind up being dehydrated until Well after their next big meal Quot i Day must 20, 1991 the stars and stripes a Page 15