European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 21, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Yeltsin thinks time running out on protesters Moscow apr the hard liners who toppled Mikhail s. Gorbachev deployed about 100 tanks tuesday near the stronghold of populist Boris n. Yeltsin who has spearheaded anti coup demonstrations by hundreds of thousands of people. The tanks formed columns within 2xh Miles of the russian republics parliament building where Yeltsin has been see related stories on pages 3,4,13 and 17 since mondays coup. The russian president told British prime minister John major by Telephone that the tanks were moving and that he a believed he had not very much time  it was not known where the tanks were headed. But a Clandestine radio station inside the building Moscow Echo said that the tanks rolled to within a mile of the building and that an assault was feared to be imminent. Streets around the building were blocked off. Demonstrators who defied a ban by the new government and gathered by the tens of thousands around the building were tearing up paving stones from a Plaza near the parliament and cracking pieces from its Marble Wall to reinforce the barricades surrounding it. On the Steps of the parliament a russian orthodox priest blessed youngsters who said they were prepared to defend the building and the demonstrators were being shown How to use firebombs. A dozen ambulances were parked behind the building. In another move to shut Down dissent see soviet on Page 2 russian president Boris Yeltsin addresses an estimated 150,000 people As bodyguards hold bulletproof Shields from either Side. Gis flood civil rights official with hundreds of complaints by de Reavis staff writer Frankfurt Germany a the chairman of the . Commission on civil rights said he was shocked by what he heard at american military bases during a 13-Day stay in Germany this month. A the Rumor in America is that the army a slogan a be All you can be was working. And that desert storm was proof that it was working a said Arthur a. Fletcher. A it turns out that the motto is More a vision than a fact. A a in a taking Back hundreds of complaints. Once you have a pattern of complaints you can determine systemic discrimination. And we probably found  Fletcher left Frankfurt for Washington on monday. He was in Germany As a speaker at a meeting of the National association for the advancement of coloured Peoples european conference of branches. In addition to the a act meeting in Frankfurt he visited army and air Force members in Kaiserslautern Darmstadt Mannheim Mainz and Stuttgart. Fletcher said he was surprised by the extreme fear of military people who Felt they risked ruining their careers by talking to him. He also said he was surprised by the number of Black officers mostly lieutenants and captains who doubted the integrity of the evaluation system. A this also was expressed on the civil service Side. There is a feeling that equal employment Opportunity staffs Are just marking time and not doing their Job partly because of budget cuts a Fletcher said. A they also feel the inspector general to be a fraud. They said they Trust the in As much As they would Trust an operating room contaminated with  a spokesman for the . Army in Europe defended the army a efforts to provide equal Opportunity. A i feel that within the army we have a system for processing complaints and i feel that it works Well a the Usa eur spokesman said tuesday. A we have careerists involved both in the military and the civil Side in our equal Opportunity program and they do a great Job in getting Down to the problems. A no system is perfect. But i feel not Only Here in Usa eur but in the army equal Opportunity pro Grange have career professionals who Are administering a hat problem. Serious complaints Are pursued to a  when told of Fletcher a comments it. Col. Doug Hart a spokesman for the department of defense said a racial and gender discrimination is most definitely against the Law and against defense department  he said people with these types of complaints can go to the social action officer or the equal Opportunity office on the base. A complaints can be taken to those offices in Confidence and they will certainly be looked into a Hart said tuesday. The complaints fall into several patterns Fletcher said. A the soldiers claim there Are Kun flux klan Applina see rights on Page 2west weighs soviet Aid cuts London apr Western leaders tuesday considered cutting off hundreds of millions of dollars in Aid to Moscow to protest Mikhail s. Gorbachev a ouster. Concern also Rose that regional crises could be affected by the coup re a in financial markets tuesday stocks stabilized on most major exchanges after plunging when Gorbachev was ousted monday. The Dollar and Gold popular investments in time of crisis lost some ground. Czechoslovakia on tuesday restricted travel by soviets in that nation for fear of a wave of soviet see West on Page 2 Back to school a stars amp stripes 4 Page special