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4 1 J. i Ss I After a coup Monday ousted Mikhail Gorbachev: Ui JJJ.JJ ULi jJ -vi Jli Page A-4 Analysis: Yanayev a front man for KGB, defense leaders Coup sloppy, experts say Page A5 Bush threatens to cut aid Page A-6 Upheaval stuns world markets a Notebook: Vignettes from the crisis Page A-7 Kiesewetter: CNN was first again Armored vehicles poured into Moscow. Ten tanks broke ranks and joined makeshift barricades protecting the Russian Federation building, where Russian President Boris Yeltsin called for resistance. The new government banned demonstrations and set up press controls. Thousands of Muscovites took to the streets in non-violent protest, President Bush returned to D.C.

from Maine vacation, put Soviet aid on hold, Investors dumped stocks, hoarded dollars and oil. I 1'' 0 W. The Associated PressBoris Yurchenko Muscovites walk among tanks parked behind Red Square on Monday. nn ft NCINNA1 11 NAL35 Owp lto9 wm toed, doses wrandl Swiete Yeltsin calls for strikes; world tense I II .1. pjp ,,1 ,11., mmmmmmmm -I i 'I 4 Iff1 1 1 i Yanayev: takes control in Soviet Union.

ENQUIRER NEWS SERVICES MOSCOW Hard-liners who ousted President Mikhail Gorbachev moved quickly Monday to reimpose control across the Soviet Union. The coup leaders banned protest meetings, shut independent newspapers and flooded the capital with troops and tanks. President Boris Yeltsin of the Russian Republic took charge of the opposition, climbing atop an armored truck and calling for a general workers' strike for today. "You can build a throne out of bayonets, but you can't sit on them long," Yeltsin told outside the Russian Parliament. "There is, or can be, no return to the past." World leaders expressed concern.

President Bush, who only weeks ago signed a historic arms treaty with Gorbachev, condemned the coup as "misguided and illegitimate." "We will avoid in every possible way actions that would lend legitimacy or support to this coup effort," Bush said. On global financial mar j. if 4 A jf i thousands of demonstrators thousands of demonstrators Gorbachev: whereabouts are unknown. San Jose Mercury NewsMichael Rondou A Soviet woman confronts a group of soldiers Monday after they blocked a telegraph office in Moscow. Gorbachev couldn't control hard-liners 4 iir BY BILL KELLER The New York Times MOSCOW The spark that Analysis kets, the news hit like an earthquake.

At one point, the Dow Jones industrial average tumbled about 100 points to 2,868 in one of the worst upheavals since the Persian Gulf crisis. When the market opened in Tokyo this morning, share prices continued to fall slightly. Demonstrators surrounded the parliament through the night to protect Yeltsin from arrest. They erected barricades of bricks, wooden boards, and even several blue-and-white trolley buses. Inside, Yeltsin's supporters worked the phones, appealing throughout the sprawling republic for resistance to the coup.

The extent to which Yeltsin's appeal for a strike was being heeded was unclear. Russian officials read to demonstrators a long list of plants in the Ural mountains and the coalfields where they said work had stopped, but in Moscow there appeared to be only patchy support. However, coal miners in Vorkuta of the Soviet far north and in the Kuznets Basin of Siberia began walking off their jobs early today. The miners have been among Yeltsin's biggest supporters and proponents of radical economic change. "The whole city will come to a standstill tomorrow," said Yuri Kovalenko, a member of the Vorkuta city strike committee.

Trying to head off such opposition, the new (Please see COUP, Page A-8) kindled Monday's takeover of the Party. Soviet government was, by all indi- But the underlying cause of cations, President Mikhail Gorba- Monday's upheaval was Gorbachev's acceptance of a new union chevs chronic attempt to balance treaty that promised to end the old tw0 irreconcilable forces two Soviet order and surrender power forces that he helped create but to elected leaders in the republics. couid not control. few mm The pact, which Gorbachev was to have signed today with Boris Yeltsin of Russia and two other republic leaders, threatened the One was a new generation of popular leaders, initially inspired by Gorbachev and later elected to in the because of power of all the institutions rcpre- fmpatience with Fnis wavering. power republics The other was a clique of hard- The Associated Press lords of the central economy, the demoralized military, the state police agencies and the Communist (Please see ANALYSIS, Page A-8) Crowds of people protesting the military coup stop tanks headed to Moscow's Red Square on Monday mm Business NYSE NASDAQ Amex Mutual funds Tempo Advice Comics Television Nothing little about it Baseball series a big dealD-1 Dayton loses hub USAir cuts flights, staff D-5 Extra, Extra! Annual back-to-school edition Five sections 151st year, No.

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