European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 23, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Friday August 23, 1991 the stars and stripes Page 3eg mpg so tits Reivi Suim or 1 1  a xxx a \ Vuk. X it xxx \ % m a jubilation Over coupes collapse muscovites outside the russian parliament building thursday Joy Tilly Greet the news collapsed. Thousands of muscovites had surrounded the parliament building where that the attempted takeover of soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev s government had russian president Boris Yeltsin had holed up for three Days. Failed coup leaves behind by Brian Friedman. Associated press writer Moscow apr the failed coup against president Mikhail s. Gorbachev has left several questions unanswered. Here is a look at some of them what is Likely to happen to the coup leaders a criminal investigation has been opened into the actions of the members of the state committee on the state of emergency the group that set itself tip As the government. Their actions according to the soviet prosecutors office a contain signs of a state crime. A a russian legislator said one of them Kab chief Vladimir Kryuchkov was arrested thursday and taken to an undisclosed prison in Moscow. Gorbachev said the a Padve naturists would be held fully and completely responsible for their unlawful actions.�?�. Besides Kryuchkov the committee consisted of soviet vice president Gennady Kanayev defense minister Dmitri Yazoo Interior minister Boris Pugo prime minister Valentin Pavlov Oleg d. Baklanov the first Deputy chairman of the soviet defense Council Vasily a. Staro debts eve chairman of the Farmers Union of the . And . Tiz Yakov president of the association of state enterprises and Industrial construction transport and communications facilities of the . What happens to the Union treaty presumably the signing of the Union treaty will go ahead. It was to have been signed tuesday by russian Republic president Boris Yeltsin and Kazakhstan president Nur Sultan Naza Rayev in a Kremlin ceremony. How will Gorbachev s relationship with Yeltsin be affected their relationship is Likely to be closer. But Yeltsin already More popular than Gorbachev will be stronger than Ever because of his successful resistance to the coup. Gorbachev a Public thanks to Yeltsin was an acknowledgement of his debt and his political importance. How did the planners bring off a coup without Alert ing Gorbachev s aides Little is known about How the Cou Little is known about Bow the coup was planned. But the involvement by the Heads of the Kab defense ministry and Interior ministry would seem to ensure that the operation could be conducted with absolute secrecy. Nevertheless there were warnings former Gorbachev aide Alexander Yakovlev said aug. 16 that stalinist elements were planning a a state Abd party  How will Gorbachev a survival affect his efforts to win support form the West to build a Market Economy it May help. President Bush said that with Gorbachev returning to Power and working with the presidents of the soviet republics the  relationship May be a if anything even  . Secretary of state James a. Baker Iii did not shut the door on a More generous Aid program than the administration was willing to adopt before Gorbachev was temporarily pushed aside. Will the coupes failure strengthen democracy will there be an election is the soviet Union now coup proof Gorbachev will have less of a reason to Compromise with hard liners in the communist party and the military. Further he will be Beholden to Yeltsin who is seeking faster Reform. Yeltsin has called for popular elections and a new Constitution and this May be the Price for supporting Gorbachev at a critical moment. As far As being a coup proof a As Long As enormous Power is wielded by the military police and Kab the danger remains. Are the hard liners finished Bush said a the fear that some of us have had about. Right Wing takeovers will no longer be As  Gorbachev certainly was in the Reform Camp before the coup attempt and will now have to align himself even More closely with them. If the Economy worsens to the Point of civil unrest and if ethnic problems continue to flare unabated the hard liners May be Able to regroup and unite again under the Banner of Law and  leave seized facility in Lithuania Vilnius . A soviet soldiers withdrew thursday from a broadcast facility they occupied last january in a bloody crackdown in the secessionist Republic of Lithuania. However soviet Interior ministry troops continued to occupy a suburban broadcast Tower seized during pre Dawn attacks that left 13 civilians and one Kab officer dead last Jan. 13. Lithuanian president vytautas Landsbergis warned new soviet defense minister Mikhail Moiseyev on thursday morning that people would seize both broadcast facilities if soviet troops did not relinquish them in the Wake of the failed coup against Mikhail s. Gorbachev. Moiseyev promised Landsbergis he would raise the Issue during a meeting scheduled thursday with Gorbachev the soviet president has named Moiseyev defense minister in place of marshal Dmitri Yazoo who has been arrested for helping Lead the abortive coup. Hundreds of lithuanian residents converged on the buildings thursday morning demanding the removal of troops and three armoured personnel carriers guarding the Tower. The crowd cheered when the troops left the downtown facility driving away in a Convoy of seven trucks under command of a soviet Interior minister officer identified in a lithuanian press release As col. M. Mironenko. Soviet troops called out during the coup were withdrawing from buildings they seized in the neighbouring secessionist Baltic republics of Latvia and Estonia