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Gorbachev moves to tighten grip on power : Coup leaders arrested : Yazov, KGB chief, Dy | Defence Minister fired : Yeltsin bans party cells in armed forces : Jubilation in Moscow

Hardliners face purge
***MOSCOW, Aug 22 : Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev said today he could have done more to prevent this week's abortive coup and regretted he had chosen as his Vice-President the man who became one of the chief plotters. Gorbachev made the admission in a 15-minute broadcast to the nation over Soviet television, according to a late night Reuter report.****
MOSCOW. Aug 22: President Mikhail Gorbachov, moving to tighten his newly regained grip on power and punish the hard-liners who briefly deposed him. declared Thursday that the Soviet Union had survived 'the most difficult trial' of his 6-ycar-old reform movement, report agencies.
Meanwhile, Boris Yeltsin, emerging more powerful than ever after leading the resistance to the coup, triumphantly rallied 100,000 Jubilant supporters to mark the end of 'three dark days' of the hard-line takeover.
The 60-year-old Gorbachev, at his first news conference since the coup agttfnst him collapsed on Wednesday, condemned on Thursday the failed hard-line takeover as being against 'the people, against democracy.'
Earlier, he told reporters
he would have killed himself rather than submit to any forced arrangement with the coup leaders. "I said I wouldn't make any deals,' he said then. "Otherwise, I would have had to commit suicide."
At the news conference Gorbachev sounded and ap-
peared furious with the coup leaders. He described his house arrest in the Crimea. 1 Ie scoffed at their contention that he was giving up his power because he was 111* Their own hands were shaking," he said derisively.
But the Soviet President stood by the Communist Party
saying it had lo be purged of reactionaries but could still contribute lo reform.
"1 see as my duly to fight while it is still in my power to do away with all obstacles to removing all reactionary forces from the Communist Party", he told a news conference.
"If one speaks in general about the party as a reactionary force, 1 must disagree. 1 know thousands of people, some are sitting here, who are real democrats and adherents to perestroika".
Gorbachev, who is General Secretary of the party as well