CBS Evening News - 1991-08-23

Name: CBS Evening News - 1991-08-23
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[0:05] [Music]

[0:12] In Moscow, old rivals form a new

[0:15] alliance. Anti-communist protesters

[0:17] march on party headquarters. And in the

[0:19] Baltics, a communist icon. Going, going,

[0:23] gone.

[0:26] This is the CBS Evening News. Dan Rather

[0:28] report. Good evening. Mika Gorbachoff

[0:31] survived the coup and today the bill

[0:33] came due. The Soviet president was

[0:35] forced to give up a good deal of his

[0:37] power to Boris Yelson and the power of

[0:39] the Soviet Communist Party is fading

[0:42] fast. Our coverage begins with

[0:44] correspondent Anthony Mason in Moscow.

[0:49] Boris Yeltson welcomed back Mikall

[0:51] Gorbachov today, but the Russian

[0:52] president now clearly controls the

[0:54] country. As Gorbachov carried out a

[0:57] sweeping purge of coup supporters,

[0:59] Yeltson unleashed a ruthless campaign to

[1:01] crush the Communist Party. This morning,

[1:04] the headquarters of the party's once all

[1:06] powerful central committee was ordered

[1:08] sealed off and communications cut.

[1:10] >> They have committed suicide. The the

[1:12] leaders of the party, collective

[1:14] suicide. Overnight, the statue of the

[1:17] KGB's founder disappeared from its

[1:19] pedestal. Symbols weren't all that

[1:21] topple. Foreign Minister Alexander

[1:23] Bismeik, silent during the coup, was

[1:25] given his walking papers. Parliamentary

[1:28] Speaker Anatoli Luciano, Gorbachov's

[1:30] schoolmate, was accused of organizing

[1:32] the plot and suspended. General Michael

[1:34] Moev, named defense minister by

[1:36] Gorbachov yesterday, fired by Yelson

[1:39] today.

[1:41] and the Communist Party mouthpiece,

[1:42] Pravda and five other newspapers were

[1:45] shut down for actively supporting the

[1:47] push.

[1:49] >> Gorbachov put his name to