European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 24, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse Saturday August 24, 1991 the stars and stripes coup m the Kremlin coup leaders possessed nuclear codes from wire reports Kennebunkport Maine the United states was never under any threat of a nuclear attack even though leaders of an unsuccessful coup in the soviet Union gained Possession of secret codes for unleashing that nations nuclear Arsenal president Bush said Friday. Bush was responding to a published report that the hard line communists who Lead the coup took Possession of a briefcase that contained the codes while soviet president Mikhail s. Gorbachev was being held prisoner. The report appeared in fridays editions of the Washington Post which attributed it to Vladimir Lysenko a Deputy in the russian parliament and a member of the delegation that flew wednesday evening to meet Gorbachev and return with him to Moscow. A there were no actions that were picked up by anybody that sent any signals of concern on that in terms of movement or things that you would associate with any concern for a nuclear threat of any Bush said. A so we did not know the Post also said that during the soviet presidents hours under siege he dictated a last will and testament onto videocassette tapes and asked his guards to sneak the film to the outside world. A Only those guards who brought food to him were allowed inside his room a Lysenko said. A that might be How he got the tapes out. He said they were Cut up into strips and sent out. Gorbachev said that even he did not know where All the tapes fast Aileen Herrara of Orange calif., examines a Gorby Dent Michael s. Gorbachev Price Tut $16.99, has been doll at doll City . In Orange calif., on thursday. A fast Selling item. About 1,000 of the dolls have Hcan the 10-Inch cloth and plastic rendering of soviet Percsi sold since the Short lived coup.g-7 advisers to review Aid plan for soviets London apr top policy advisers from the worlds richest democracies will meet in London next week to review Aid to the soviet Union and fast moving developments following the abortive Hartline coup prime minister John majors office announced Friday. The meeting is the first step to any change in the modest Aid package that the seven major industrialized nations have Given the soviet Union. Some critics charged this week that the seven capitalist Powers by failing to give the soviet Union massive financial Aid May have contributed to the coup against president Mikhail s. Gorbachev. The so called group of seven split on the Issue of Cash handouts when it met Gorbachev after the g-7 Summit in London last month and the group remains divided following the coup. Germany and to a lesser extent France and Italy have called for the major Powers to respond with Cash. But the United states Britain Japan and Canada oppose Large scale handouts before the so Viet Union makes tangible Progress toward a Market Economy. German Chancellor Helmut Kohl whose country is the soviet unions biggest financial and political Backer on Friday stepped up the pressure. He called on his a american friends japanese partners and others to do More to help Gorbachev Reform the soviet Union. President Bush on thursday rejected any immediate change in the . Position. Major the current g-7 chairman decided thursday to ask advisers to review a the new situation in the soviet Union on behalf of their Heads of government said a Downing Street spokesman speaking on condition he was not identified. He said thursday that the soviet Union needs assistance but not a stacks of the policy advisers known in diplomatic circles As a usher past a Himalayan Mountain pathfinders a will report Back to major and May be asked to draw up proposals for action the spokesman said. No Date has been set for next weeks private meeting in London he said. Russian Hammer and sickle Flag yields to White Blue and red thousands of muscovites converge on red Square accompanied by a huge russian Flag. By the new York times Moscow a the Hammer and sickle went the Way of the Junta As russian Republic president Boris n. Yeltsin restored the White Blue and red Banner of pre revolutionary Russia As the republics official Flag. Across the City Large and Small versions of the new Flag fluttered above the demonstrations As a potent repudiation of the seven decades of communism. A huge Roar went up As Yeltsin told a crowd numbering tens of thousands that the new Emblem had been approved thursday by the russian parliament. It was raised thursday Over the republics parliament Headquarters amid the barricades and jubilant Erow cos of the successful three Dav Vigil against the coup. In the last few years various republics and nationalities have taken special pleasure in rebuffing local versions of the soviet Flag and raising up other beloved emblems of their National identities. The new russian Flag was brought to Moscow initially by Peter the great who according to some historians copied the colors from the dutch Flag and used them for the Banner of his merchant Navy. It became the official Flag of the russian Empire Early in the 18th Century. A similar Flag with a double headed Black Eagle on the upper Field of White was the Ensign of the Raissian american co., which flew it Over Alaska. The doubleheader Eagle was adopted by the czars to assert their links with the byzantine Empire. I he Czar s Emblem was a Gold Flag emblazoned with each czars individually drawn double headed Eagle. Under soviet Power the russian federation flew the red fag with Hammer and sickle but with a Blue strip Down the left Border. I ring thursday s demonstrations that Flag continued to Fly Over Yeltsin a offices inside the Kremlin evidently because no one had yet thought to replace it. The White Blue and red Flag had become the most popular Flag of political insurgents within Russia marshalling demonstrators in protest rallies outside the Kremlin. Protesters who marched on the Kremlin on thursday to celebrate the Deleat of the coup carried a big sign addressed to president Mikhail s. Gorbachev that read a Mikhail done to forget under which Flag you were
