European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 23, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 2 the stars and stripes Friday August 23, 1991 at a glance master chef Rossano Boscolo Cooks up a real feast for a group of americans taking a venetian cooking course. See pages 1415. Dinkins chased out new York mayor David Dinkins tries to Calm tension Between hasidic jews and Blacks in Brooklyn but a jeering bottle throwing crowd drives him away. A Page 4 Gore won t seek presidency sen. Albert Gore or joins the growing crowd of democrats on the sidelines for the 1992 presidential race. A Page 5 new charges filed Milwaukee prosecutors charge Jeffrey l. Dahmer with three More dismemberment slayings. A Page 6 anti abortion protests a Federal judge orders three antiabortion protest leaders jailed for contempt of court and orders each to pay fines of More than $10,000. A Page 7 Connecticut tax blocked the Connecticut House rejects a Senate passed income tax throwing the state s finances Back into chaos and again thwarting gov. Lowell p. Weicker s drive to restructure the state s tax system. A Page 8 Long live the King a German Magazine says that a poll it commissioned shows nearly 60 percent of those questioned would like a German King again. A Page 9 Index j Abby Ann Landers 19 action line .16 comics. 19-21 commentary .13 crossword .19 letters .12 Money matters.17 sports.22-28 to listings.22 weather.11 i alter roles of soviet leadership military by Meridith Winder . Bureau although the coup has failed the leadership picture and the military a role in the future of the soviet Union has yet to be resolved according to a number of experts. A Mikhail Gorbachev is now in a better position because the coup failed a said Bill Wallace director of the Quot school of soviet and East european studies at Scotland a Glasgow University. A since he was kidnapped he a returned As some sort of Wallace attributed part of this to the support Gorbachev received from the outside world. A but he can to forget he was rescued by russian president Boris Yeltsin a Wallace added. A this will diminish some of Gorbachev a Power but increase with the loss of that Power Gorbachev will face a shifting of priorities according to the experts. For instance the division of Power in the soviet Union will have to be examined. A Gorbachev will have to do one of two things Quot said Andrew Duncan an analyst with the London based International Institute for strategic studies. A a he la either have to change the role of president or set up some sort of electoral process to confirm his position. Remember Yeltsin was democratically elected by the people. Gorbachev was also although the defense establishment is traditionally controlled by the soviet president during the attempted coup some of the military sided with Yeltsin. Yeltsin also declared that forces inside the russian Republic would be commanded by him. A the Way the military reacted during the attempted coup is quite understandable a said Edward Foster an analyst with the Independent defense think tank Royal United services Institute. A a there a a great Deal of russian nationalism in the soviet military. For one thing the general staff is 90 percent ethnic Foster wondered at what Point the soviet army becomes the russian army especially since a Large number of other nationalities Are discouraged from joining the military. One of the big winners in the coupes failure appears to be the West according to the experts. A the Western defense is in better position since before the coup a Duncan said. A some people said that defense cuts should be halted because of the coup. But i did no to believe this was he believes ratification of the strategic arms reduction treaty and a continuation of talks on conventional forces in Europe will be pushed Forward. Foster agreed but also Felt that the draw Down of nato forces should continue. A the draw Down is going to take approximately five years a Foster said. A each nato country involved can make modifications depending on what happens at any Given time. They can examine ways to maintain a High captors from Page 1 a coup leaders. A i said 1 make any deals a he told reporters. A otherwise i would have had to commit at least four people were killed outside the russian parliament building in Moscow during clashes with soviet troops. They were among tens of thousands of people who helped defend Gorbachev Slegal right to Lead the soviet Union and the democracy he brought to them after 70 years of dictatorship. It was Only when some of his 32 personal bodyguards who were held captive with him managed to cobble together a homemade radio that he heard the draconian decrees being issued by the men who had summarily replaced him president Nur Sultan Nazar Baev of Kazakhstan said on local radio after talking to Gorbachev. Gorbachev said the coup leaders had tried to get his support for their plans to declare a state of emergency that would a plunge our society into a i said that it would be fatal for them and the country. 1 was absolutely against it a he told uru Hadzo a Gorbachev said he demanded an immediate session of the National parliament apparently counting on the legislators to refuse the hard liners demand for a state of emergency. Instead they took him captive and simply announced i he most important thing i that everything we have done since 1985 has borne fruit. The society and people have changed a Mikhail Gorbachev to the world that he was too ill to serve. Residents of the area around Gorbachev a compound told the Independent news and information Agency that on monday morning they noticed the usual guards had been replaced by a Kab regiment. Six vessels were also off the coast and a helicopter was flying overhead they were quoted As saying. A on wednesday a delegation from the crimean legislature asked maj. Vyacheslav Yeremin at the Dacha to see Gorbachev any of his family or his chief bodyguard and they were refused the news Agency reported. But by wednesday the coup was collapsing and that afternoon several of its leaders were flying to the Crimea a to apologize a soviet Media reported. Gorbachev refused to see them. Within hours he was Back in communication and control issuing Curt orders and having his one time ministers and vice president hauled Back to Moscow where they were promptly taken into custody. But despite the ordeal Gorbachev seemed gratified by what it had shown. A the most important thing is that everything we have done since 1985 has borne fruit. The society and people have changed a he said. Many of the hundreds of thousands of soviets who took to the streets to protest Gorbachev a ouster by some of his most senior officials also noted that such an outpouring of anger and determination to resist dictatorship would never have occurred even two years ago when peo pie were still too cowed to protest. It was the soviet people a standing up for their principles who stopped the coup Gorbachev said. Gorbachev from Page 1 even though key members of it appeared to have Given support to the coup leaders. Within the soviet Union some of the chaos caused by the coup was receding. Miners in the country s largest Coal Field who had answered Yeltsin a strike Call during the takeover went Back to work thursday. But the miners who Wield considerable clout because their strikes can devastate the Economy refused to ship any Coal until leaders of the coup Are made to answer for their actions the official Tass news Agency said. In the restive Baltic republics soviet troops were withdrawing thursday from buildings they seized during the crackdown on secessionist movements in Lithuania Latvia and Estonia. But soviet Interior ministry troops remained in control of the broadcast Tower outside the lithuanian capital of Vilnius. The hard liners who overthrew Gorbachev bitterly disagreed with him Over How to Deal with Independence movements in various republics. The overthrow came on the eve of the signing of the Union treaty meant to give More autonomy to Republican governments. Gorbachev said he was to meet Friday with leaders of the nine republics that support the pact. At his Kennebunkport Maine vacation Home president Bush said he sees an Opportunity to accelerate the talks leading to Independence for the Baltic. At his news conference Gorbachev made a Point of publicly praising Yeltsin whose Folk hero stature was enhanced during the coup As he rallied hundreds of thousands of his supporters to resist. Outside the russian parliament the nerve Center of nationwide resistance to the coup Yeltsin addressed cheering demonstrators who waved russians pre revolutionary White Bluc and red flae. One speaker addressing the crowd through a megaphone asked whether Gorbachev should stay in Power. The crowd whistled mockingly then shouted a resign resign Quot asked whether Gorbachev should take another vacation nearly everyone in the crowd raised their hands. Gorbachev was on vacation in the Crimea when he was overthrown monday. Before Dawn thursday Gorbachev flew Back to Moscow from the Crimea where he had been confined to his summer Home during his Brief ouster. Yeltsin the country a most important popularly elected Leader tapped into surging russian nationalism to rally opposition to the coup and he gave every indication he would continue to demand a Strong role for his vast Republic in the Wake of the takeover. At the russian parliament the crowd roared when Yeltsin announced that the republics legislature had voted to adopt the Tricolour russian Banner in place of russians red communist Era Flag. A Hurrah for Russia a he shouted and the crowd chanted Back a Russia Russia a
