The coup fails on the third day as the Red Army retreats from Moscow. "A great day in the middle of history," says US President Bush. Mikhail Gorbachev is again Soviet President on his way back to Moscow. But Boris Yeltsin is the Man of the Hour as he goes before the Russian Parliament. Dissension in the military as some key airborne units threw support behind Yeltsin. Criminal proceedings announced against plotters. Tens of thousands in crowd praise Yeltsin as barricades remain up in case of trouble. Celebration in Moscow. US President Bush praises Yeltsin at press conference. Diane Sawyer offers multiple reasons why the coup failed. The Pentagon offers its take on the bungled coup. Discussion of who will now run the USSR. Condoleezza Rice talks about splintering of the Soviet high command during the coup and calls it a bad day for the Soviet army. Jeff Greenfield reports that the tanks came and went in part because of the recent democratic change in the USSR.
