CBS This Morning (partial) - 1991-08-22

Name: CBS This Morning (partial) - 1991-08-22
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[0:01] >> and I'm Harry Smith. Good morning

[0:02] everyone.

[0:03] >> We're going to bring you up to date on

[0:04] the latest news in just a moment. Then

[0:06] we'll be talking with Soviet reporters

[0:07] based here in the United States about

[0:09] the historic events in their homeland.

[0:11] >> And our economics correspondent, Robert

[0:13] Krollich, gauges the long-term impact of

[0:16] the short-lived coup. We'll also talk

[0:19] with some young Soviet women who were

[0:21] visiting this country as the week's

[0:22] event unfolded.

[0:24] >> Right now, it's time to get caught up on

[0:25] the news this morning. Ma Gorbachoff is

[0:27] in the Kremlin this morning and the

[0:28] Soviet people are cheering in the

[0:30] streets. Tens of thousands of them

[0:32] gathered outside the Russian Parliament

[0:33] building to cheer their hero Boris Yelen

[0:36] as he proclaimed victory over the coup

[0:38] leaders. Elson told his parliament that

[0:41] four of those leaders had been arrested.

[0:43] A fifth interior Minister Boris Pugo

[0:46] attempted suicide. There are now some

[0:49] conflicting reports whether Pugo is dead

[0:52] or alive. When Gorbachov returned to

[0:54] Moscow last night, he thanked Yelson and

[0:56] the Russian people for their support.

[0:59] His office says this morning that he's

[1:00] already made some changes in the defense

[1:03] ministry. In Washington, American

[1:05] military leaders kept close tabs on the

[1:07] progress of the Soviet coup. Jim Stewart

[1:09] reports from the Pentagon on why they

[1:11] think it failed.

[1:14] >> The consensus here is that the coup

[1:15] planners never had the heart, the soul,

[1:17] or the muscle of the Red Army behind

[1:18] them in this crisis. The vast majority

[1:20] of units lay ut