European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 22, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 the stars and stripes thursday August 22, 1991coup in the Kremlin official details in soviet coup Moscow apr heavy tractors blocked Mikhail s. Gorbachev a Jet and his Villa in the Crimea was surrounded by Kab officers the Day he was ousted from office an official says. Moscow Deputy mayor Sergei Stankevich said tuesday that Gorbachev and several of his top aides were arrested during an elaborate operation coordinated by the military and the Kab. He said All air land and sea approaches to the coastal area also were sealed off. A president Gorbachev the legitimate president of the country was removed from his position by forcible methods against his will and is being held by Force a Stankevich told a rally outside the russian parliament building. Patriarch Alexei ii Leader of tens of millions of russian orthodox christians in the soviet Union demanded that Gorbachev be allowed to appear in Public. Varying accounts have been Given of Gorbachev a arrest and whereabouts but most Are different than the official version. The hard liners who staged the coup on monday said Gorbachev stepped Down because he was ill. Stankevich citing reliable sources in the military said Gorbachev had been arrested in the Crimea a Black sea vacation spot with aides Gen. Vladimir t. Medvedev his Security chief diplomatic adviser Anatoly Chernyaeva and another Long time adviser Georgy Shak Nazarov. At 4 . On monday the commander of the soviet air defense forces col. Gen. Igor Maltsev ordered two heavy tractors parked on the runway in the Crimea to keep the Gorbachev party a Airliner and helicopter from leaving Stankevich said. A local unit of the Kab secret police sealed off the area around Gorbachev a vacation Home or Dacha Stankevich said. The Kab allowed Gorbachev a Airliner to take off a apparently without him a on monday night and it flew to Vnuk ovo Airport in Moscow Stankevich said. In another report estonian Premier Edgar Savisaar said Gorbachev had been arrested at Vnuk ovo one of Moscow a three main airports after he refused to sign a decree turning Power Over to vice president Gennady Kanayev one of the coup leaders. He cited a a Well informed source for his report. Coup spurs Over . Military Washington up the soviet coup has reinvigorated views prominent in the 1980s that the . Military budget should remain robust because of soviet unpredictability. But others called for Calm until a clearer picture emerges from Moscow. Quot it seems to me that certainly this event like the iraqi crisis is a very Strong argument against cutting the defense budget any further than the Bush administration intended in the first place a Patrick Glynn director of the arms con.  is on the Sdit Emore tool and disarmament Agency in the Reagan administration said tuesday. A in my opinion we should be rethinking our Overall military posture. We  completely exclude the possibility of a slightly More robust posture a said Glynn a resident scholar with the american Enterprise Institute a Washington think tank. But a soviet american Security relations expert called that thinking  a Many people Are going to try to use this As an excuse to increase military spending but i think its a cheap and lame excuse a said William Kincaid an american University professor of International relations. A the United states and the soviet Union have a very Long record of not confronting each other  however rep. Patricia Schroeder d-colo., who sits on the House armed services committee said the coup could cause the United states to reconsider its planned 25 percent Cut in . Forces and military base closings. And sen. John Warner the virginian who is the ranking Republican on the Senate armed services committee said in a Telephone interview that the soviet coup should strengthen the Senate a hand in its fight with the House for More Money for the strategic defense initiative. A none of us know How these events May turn at any moment a said Warner. A but should the tragedy of a civil War occur there is increased risk of accidental use of nuclear weapons. A the current ski provisions in the Senate Bill which i drafted Are designed to put America on the course of providing defences Here in the United states to protect against accidental  echoing those views was retired army it. Gen. Daniel Graham former head of the defense intelligence Agency and former Deputy Cia director. A the United states should now push ahead with the ski and agree to no constraints on its deployment a Graham said. A the soviet Union is on the verge of civil War. The need for ski is More urgent than  former Cia director William Colby reached by. Telephone at his Washington. _ a a a a a Home said All of the talk about shifting . Defense policy should be held in Abe Yance. A we should wait until it the situation clarifies. Its not Over a Colby said. He said that either president Boris Yeltsin of the russian Republic will be Able to amass crowds too Large for the new soviet regime to suppress or the new Kab military regime will Send in troops similar to the chinese crackdown. Asked if the Pentagon should reconsider the withdrawal of two army divisions in Europe Colby said there is a no threat in the immediate future to Western Europe and no plans should change yet. President Bush at the Rose Garden swearing in ceremony of Robert Strauss As . Ambassador to the soviet Union said he does not want to see a re emergence of the distrustful East West relations of the cold War. A a a i Hope that a True of the coup plotters a Bush said. Kincaid agreed adding that newly democratic Eastern european nations should not feel threatened by the new soviet leaders. Any soviet move against Poland or other former soviet satellite Kincaid said a would set off an insurrection within the soviet Union. This new government if it lasts is not looking for new  defense Secretary Dick Cheney told Congress recently that whatever the relationship Between the two superpowers the soviets Are not Likely to have a major military buildup because of the country a dire economic troubles among other  Security expert says soviet troops must go by de Reavis Staft writer Hamburg Germany a a top German Security expert said his country will insist that the soviet military leave Germany on schedule despite the current upheavals. Egon Bahr Security expert for the social democratic party and president of the Institute for peace research and Security politics of the University of Hamburg said a the clique now in Power claim they will continue on the Reform course and Honor All foreign treaties. Should they prevail i believe  be very concerned about keeping treaties and agreements to the  Germany and the soviet Union have a treaty that Calls for removal of the 330,000 soviet troops from the territory of the former East Germany by the end of 1994. Bahr is called the a father of Ost poli Tik a the policy of negotiating agreements with Moscow Warsaw and Prague that began during the administration of West German Chancellor Willi Brandt in 1970 and ended in the period of detente Between East and West. On the basis of his knowledge of soviet politics and politicians Bahr said of the this weeks Putsch �?o1  care to risk an opinion on the future until we know whether or not the soviet parliament will be Able to Convene and take  but Bahr said he was impressed by the political reaction in the West to the soviet coup. A it was Good that we All spoke in concert a he said. A and it was Wise to announce that the West will continue to Send humanitarian support to the soviet Union but will cease All economic  Bahr said the West should continue to insist that the soviet Union adhere to the Paris charter signed in 1990, which binds the signatories of the conference on Security and cooperation in Europe to the principles of humanism and democracy. Asked if the West was meddling in the internal affairs of the soviet Union by insisting that deposed president Mikhail s. Gorbachev be reinstated Bahr said a in a sense yes. But there is a new dimension growing in International politics. It began with the Aid for the kurd in Northern Iraq. Its difficult to articulate this new principle because it Hasni to been formalized in any manner yet. A certainly the principal of non interference As written in the charter of the United nations is supreme. But As democracy grows governments also have the responsibility to respect the rights of individuals and Peoples. A a that a Why the West insists upon the soviet Union adhering to the principles of the Paris charter. This is a beginning of new  Bahr also said he agreed with those who want to integrate Poland Czechoslovakia and Hungary into the european Community. A we must do everything for those countries and others who could have serious problems because they depend upon the soviet Union for vital products such As Gas Oil and other things a he said. A the europeans must help out Here and that Means a quicker association _. With the common  est a Bahr Security expert for the s democratic party