Soviet Coup: Crisis meeting

Soviet Coup: Crisis meeting; CMS Strauss at podium as flanked by Bush & Baker MS Robert Strauss (new US Ambassador to USSR) speech SOF (flanked by Bush & Baker) ZOOM IN - intends to go to Moscow for talks using undiplomatic candour if necessaryCMS Press woman LMS All three CMS Bush SOF - no plans for Strauss to meet Yanayev/ don't want to do anything to legitimise regime MS Entrance to White House PULL OUT MS Limousine along PAN L-R to BV away thru gates LBV Men out car ? CMS Jean Kirkpatrick (US Ambassador to the UN, 1981-85) intvwd SOF - if new leadership are intending to continue reforms yet are seizing power by force these actions are contradictory & I think it'll fall apart / max influence will come thru consistent action of all the major countries of the West 2 SHOT White House:LMS Bush seen on phone thru window CMS Bush speech SOF - this isn't a time to threaten / this is time for diplomacy & backing for those committed to reform / Yeltsin standing courageously against force - told him we respect & pray for him & hope he is successful MS Bush, Baker & Strauss at podium PULL OUT BV Marlin Fitzwater (White House Spokesman), Bush, John Sununu ? (White House Chief of Staff) & Brent Scowcroft (Nat Security Adviser) along PAN R-L to heli (Bush returning to Maine to continue holiday) CMS Smith i/c SOF & sign off TX 20.8.91/C4N