European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 23, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 a the stars and stripes Friday August 23, 1991 at a glance Uomoto Cooks a a real least for a Groop of americans Timog a venetian Cook lag coarse. See Papes 14-15.More Brooklyn violence racial violence flares for a third Day wednesday in a Brooklyn neighbourhood whore Blacks and Ultra orthodox hasidic jews have had a history of uncomfortable co oxi Steno. Pago 4gore won t seek presidency sen. Albeit Gore or. Joins the growing crowd of democrats on the sidelines for the 1992 presidential race. A Page 5new charges planned Milwaukee District attorney e. Michael Mccann says he will file additional homicide charges against Jeffrey Dahmer. A pages anti abortion protests a Federal judge orders three antiabortion protest leaders jailed Tor contempt of court and orders each to pay fines of More than $10,000. A Page 7income tax Bill of d the Senate adopts an income tax Early thursday breaking a 52-Day deadlock that left Connecticut the Only state without a budget. 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 i Wii i w inv Wei 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 captors threatened family to break me Moscow apr an exhausted president Mikhail s. Gorbachev said thursday his captors tried to Force him to give up Power by threatening his family and he credited the soviet people for the failure of the coup. Quot the entire world must know what they plotted and what they wanted to do to me a Gorbachev told soviet television As he returned to Moscow Early thursday. He was shown on to after leaving the plane with his family. It was the soviet people a standing up for their principles who stopped the coup Gorbachev said during the interview. Gorbachev looked exhausted by the ordeal with deep lines in his face after being held captive by his own troops. He was kept isolated ignorant of the massive struggle to free him. His wife Raisa hugged their 11-year-old granddaughter Oksana As daughter Irina carried 4-year-old Anastasia As they left the plane. Irina her face drawn had shoved Ner hair carelessly into a knot. Irina s husband also was held captive with Gorbachev in the government owned Retreat on a Black sea Peninsula near Foros said Leningrad journalist Georgy Urush adze who interviewed the  the most important thing is that everything we have done since 1985 has Bome fruit the society and people have changed _ a Mikhail Gorbachev the Gorbachev family arrived at 2 15 . Thursday at Vnukovo-2 Airport near Moscow under tight Security. A what they tried to do to the president and to his family completely surrounding him for 72 hours with troops on land Ana sea a Gorbachev said biting off his words. A they wanted to break him morally and use his family to do  a none of it worked a he added grimly. Several people died defending Gorbachev Slegal right to Lead the soviet Union and the taste of democracy he brought to them after 70 years of dictatorship. When some of his bodyguards who had been held captive with my managed to cobble together a homemade radio he heard the draconian decrees being issued by the men who had summarily replaced him Kazakhstan president Nur Sultan Naza Bayev said on local radio after talking to Gorbachev. A Gorbachev said the coup leaders had tried to get his support for their plans to declare a state of emergency. However Gorbachev told them such a move would a plunge our society into  a i said that it would be fatal for them and the country. I was absolutely against it a he told Urush adze. Gorbachev said that he had demanded an immediate session of the National parliament or legislature apparently counting on the members to reject hard liners demands. Instead they took him captive and simply announced to the world that he was too ill to serve. Despite the ordeal Gorbachev seemed gratified by Peoples actions during the coup. A the most important thing is that everything we have done since 198s 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 also noted that such an outpouring of anger and determination to resist dictatorship would never have occurred even two years  from Page 1 had been confined to his summer Home by the forces that temporarily ousted him. Gorbachev faced the task of forging a new relationship with the vastly popular Yeltsin and cleaning up the Kremlin. Emerging from three Days of isolation Gorbachev wasted no time in thanking Yeltsin the Man who frequently criticized him but led the fight for his return. Quot Here is my respect to the soviet people and specifically to Boris Yeltsin the president of Russia a Gorbachev told soviet television. Tens of thousands of soviets answered Yeltsin Scall to strike and rally in protest of the coup. Gorbachev flew into Moscow at 2 15 . Thursday looking tired and strained after his ordeal. His tribute to Yeltsin and the soviet people was coupled with condemnation of the eight men who dared to Challenge him and held him under House Anest besides Kab chief Vladimir Kryuchkov and Kanayev Yeltsin listed those arrested As a a former decease minister Dmitri Yazoo and Alexander l Rizya Kov head of the association of state enterprises and Industrial construction transport and communications facilities of the . Prince minister Valentin Pavlov was under guard in a Hospital. The other two coup leaders Vasily a. Starodub Sev and Oleg d. Baklanov had immunity As  from Page 1 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 russian. 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. Some of the reforms Gorbachev was considering will have to be pushed for Ward. Others will have to be modified. A a he la have to Speed up the process of the republics gaining More autonomy in running their own affairs a Wallace said. A Gorbachev will probably have to revise and set up a better Union treaty. This could Lead to a number of republics leaving the  does no to believe that will be bad for the country. A Russia will most Likely support some sort of Union a he said. A a it a better to have a smaller Union made up of a willing federation of republics. The loss of the Baltic republics is not a major tragedy. They will just have to come to some sort of Security agreement a 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. Each nato country involved can make modifications depending on what happens at any Given time. They can examine ways to maintain a High  from Page 1 sense a Victory for the  but he said he believed the soviets need knowhow rather than Cash. Opposition to the coup was led by russian president Boris n. Yeltsin and world leaders said his standing was vastly strengthened by his resistance. Major said he looked Forward to a new partnership Between Yeltsin and Gorbachev to promote Reform which he said Quot May Well  Britain lifted a freeze on its $83 million program of technical assistance major said Japan was prepared to lift its freeze including $100 million in food Aid chief Cabinet Secretary miso i Sakamoto said. In Many capitals around the world leaders cheered Gorbachev a return to the Kremlin and Yeltsin a courage. European Community leaders cancelled an emergency Summit they had scheduled for Friday in the Hague Netherlands to discuss the coup. Eastern Europe a emerging democracies on wednesday greeted the failure of the soviet coup with Relief but with a renewed sense or their own vulnerability. A a it a very Good news that the coup has collapsed in this Way a said Bronislaw Seremek chairman of the foreign affairs committee in the polish parliament. A but the problem is the same As before. The soviet Union is still in a very deep crisis which is first of All political not economic. After All the very reason for this coup was the new Union  but he said that the events of the past few Days should give new impetus to the requests by Poland Czechoslovakia and Hungary for associate membership in the european Community. Thousands of czechoslovak celebrated wednesday night in Prague a Wenceslas Square where they had gathered to Mark the anniversary of the 1966 soviet invasion of their country