European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 24, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Angry muscovites in red Square on Friday tear Down the statue of Felix Dze Rohinsky the founder of the  foreign minister resigns Moscow apr soviet foreign minister Alexander Bessmer Nyoh resigned Friday following accusations that he failed to oppose the coup against president Mikhail s. Gorbachev the foreign ministry said. In Washington White House spokesman roman Popadiuk said Bessmer Nyoh notified Secretary of state James a. Baker Iii of his resignation. Bessmer Nyoh 57, was the latest official to step Down or be removed following the failed takeover. He was not seen publicly after the coup began and he did no to re emerge until the coup began to collapse. He said illness prevented him from speaking out. A replacement for Bessmer Nyoh was not immediately announced. Baker and Bessmer Nyoh worked together to Complete the landmark strategic arms reduction treaty treaty to slash Long Range nuclear arsenals and they also worked to bring about a Middle East peace conference scheduled for october. Bessmer Nyoh became soviet foreign minister in december after Eduard Shevardnadze resigned to protest some of Gorbachev a policies and said that hard liners were pushing the soviet Union toward dictatorship. Bessmer Nyoh was named the soviet unions . Ambassador in May 1990 and previously served As a Diplomat at the United nations and in  says plotters planned to isolate russian Moscow apr Mikhail s. Gorbachev in his first Public appearance with the Man who helped save his presidency said Friday that the leaders of the hard line coup had sought to arrest russian Republic Leader Boris Yeltsin. Gorbachev praised a the outstanding role of Yeltsin in halting the coup. His comments Drew a standing ovation from the deputies of the parliament of the russian federation. A the president of Russia Yeltsin. Was to be arrested that is How i understood it a Gorbachev said adding the coup plotters intended to isolate Yeltsin. Gorbachev met with Yeltsin to discuss purging More coup supporters. As the face of the soviet government continued to change in the aftermath of the 63-hour coup hundreds of angry citizens marched toward communist party Headquarters in Moscow intent on proving the party was behind the coup. In Moscow Yeltsin who led the nationwide coup resistance Friday nationalized the hundreds of printing plants in the russian Republic. He suspended the publication of six communist party newspapers and ordered new chiefs for the official no Vosti and Tass news services charging that they had supported the takeover. It was unclear whether he had the authority to order the firings. The actions by Yeltsin who quit the party last summer came amid a growing wave of anger at the communist party six of whose top party officials were arrested for instigating the coup in Al major blow to the crumbling party the acting head of the Kab on Friday banned communist party activity in the Security service Tass said. A Kab directive also banned any other political parties in the Kab for decades used by communist regimes to intimidate dissidents and anti communist activists. In the secessionist Baltic republics Latvia on Friday followed Lithuania in Banning the communist party altogether. Showing his prerogative obviously As part of Ansee Yeltsin on Page 2 army finding few cases of Gulf combat stress by Vince Crawley Nimberg Bureau army psychiatrists say they army psychiatrists say Iney have treated Only a handful of Europe based soldiers for combat stress in the persian Gulf War and they expect to see few cases of Post traumatic stress syndrome. The episodes of Battle fatigue or War related mental turmoil Are isolated a clinical vignettes a not the beginning of a trend said or. It. Col James a. Martin who commands a medical research team in Heidelberg Germany. Although he a written preliminary reports Martin cautioned that its still too soon to reach firm documented conclusions about the emotional aftermath of the fighting. A we have a lot of presumptions and a lot of impressions and we re beginning to gather some data a Martin said. Troop cuts might skewer medical findings another doctor said. Europe based Gulf veterans Are being shipped to the states so fast that its difficult to do follow up work said or. It. Col Marylin Ordeniz Schneider who served at the 12th evacuation Hospital near the front lines. She treated 300 psychiatric patients Between dec 30 and mid april. She said a i did no to see anybody with combat stress or Battle  of the half million people deployed to the persian Gulf Between aug. 2, 1990, and aug. 2, 1991, Only 7,228 were evacuated to army medical facilities in Europe according to a draft medical report. A of this number Only 467 were evacuated for psychiatric reasons and almost All of these were non combat related cases a the report said. Doniz Schneider sent Only seven patients out of the Middle East theater and some of those were already being see army on Page 2 868 Vine Crawley or. It. Col Marylin Ordeniz Schneider served near the front lines