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history-making events

■Kent Fleming, Sara Lantz, Kevin Sloma, Jenny
i edlicka, Tim Luwkowski, Bryan Chase and
Cevin Heim on the Coup in Russia:
Fleming: "It was the military's last attempt to take back its
country."
Jedlicka: "It was the last attempt to keep Communism in
Russia."
■O Fleming: "I don't think Gorbachev was a Communist;
he's just the guy who started to change the government.
<D They may not want him, but they need him."
<D Jedlicka: "Maybe he could be the ambassador to the U.S.,
if anything at all."
Chase: "Gorbachev is gone."
Heim: "I think he helped started this whole change, and
that's all they needed him for, so they won't keep him in."
Luwkowski: "The change is going to take years though;
it's not just going to happen overnight."
Jedlicka: "Yeah, if they move too fast it will be like culture
shock . . . People were starving."
Heim: "They started seeing all the freedoms that we
Americans have."

ussian President Boris //U SA ! USA!" The flag-
Yeltsin waved the white- waving crowd chanted as
blue-and-red Russian tricolor Desert Storm Commander
flag to about 100,000 support­ General H. Norman
ers celebrating the end of the 3- Schwarzkopf gave a thumbs
day coup attempt. up sign during the New York's
Operation Welcome Home
ticker tape parade in June
1991.