Valentin S Pavlov

Five of the eight leaders of the failed Kremlin coup have been arrested and another committed suicide, officials said. ARRESTED Vice President Gennady I. Yanayev Defense Minister Dmitri T. Yazov KGB chief Vladimir A. Kryuchkov Alexander I. Tizyakov, president of the Assn. of State Enterprises Soviet Defense Council Deputy Oleg D. Baklanov, after parliamentary immunity lifted SOUGHT FOR ARREST Head of Soviet Peasants Union Vasily A.

Valentin S. Pavlov, a former Soviet prime minister who helped lead the failed hard-line coup against Mikhail Gorbachev in 1991, has died, Russian news reports said Monday. He was 66. Pavlov died Sunday in Moscow after a long illness. A native of Moscow, Pavlov graduated from the Moscow Finance Institute and held a doctorate in economics. He began his career as a city tax inspector in Moscow and rose slowly through the Soviet economic bureaucracy, becoming finance minister in 1989.

Valentin S. Pavlov, an economist who worked his way from tax collector to finance minister, on Monday was elected prime minister of the Soviet Union. He will succeed Nikolai I. Ryzhkov at the head of a restructured Cabinet. In nominating Pavlov for the second-toughest job in the government, President Mikhail S. Gorbachev praised his ability as an economist and his commitment to rebuilding the centrally planned Soviet economy on the basis of market principles.

SOVIET UNION Sudden Death: The year's most momentous story was the rapid collapse of the Soviet Union, which seemed to implode and disappear into the black hole of history in less than five months. By the end of 1991, the 74-year-old Soviet superpower had ceased to exist. Rising from the ruins was the Commonwealth of Independent States, which linked 11 of the 15 former Soviet republics as sovereign states and was led by Russian Federation President Boris N. Yeltsin. Meanwhile, former Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev was a man without a job. Prelude to Crisis: The beginning of 1991 saw Gorbachev alternately loosening and tightening his grip on the rebellious republics as he tried to quell ethnic and labor disputes and just hold the nation together.

Two days after hard-liners ousted Mikhail S. Gorbachev, his whereabouts remains shrouded in mystery. Even President Bush has not been able to reach him by telephone despite repeated attempts. But reports of possible sightings of Gorbachev circulated furiously in Moscow. Three members of the eight-man committee of coup leaders reportedly had resigned or were "ill"--Defense Minister Dmitri T. Yazov, Prime Minister Valentin S. Pavlov and KGB chief Vladimir A. Kryuchkov.

Ivan Silayev, Russian Federation prime minister, was named head of a committee that will decide how the Soviet economy should be run and name a new Cabinet of Ministers. Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev has asked the national Parliament to debate a no-confidence motion in the government of former Soviet Prime Minister Valentin S. Pavlov, arrested for being a coup plotter. A SILAYEV PROFILE: Born in 1930; joined the Communist Party in 1959 after studying aeronautics.

Oleg D. Baklanov, former Defense Council vice chairman; member of State Emergency Committee Valery I. Boldin, Gorbachev's former chief of staff Major Gen. Vyacheslav V. Generalov, KGB commander at Gorbachev vacation retreat in Phoros Vladimir A. Kryuchkov, former KGB head; member of State Emergency Committee Anatoly I. Lukyanov, chairman of the Supreme Soviet, accused of treason Vladimir Medvedev, Gorbachev's former adjutant Valentin S.

Prime Minister Valentin S. Pavlov called Monday for "old-style coercion" to impose order on the collapsing Soviet economy and indicated that the government intends to crack down hard on strikers and disobedient managers in the coming phase of its economic reforms.

The apparent right-wing putsch that ousted President Mikhail S. Gorbachev early Monday puts into immediate question all the reforms--in political, economic and foreign policy--that the Soviet leader had implemented in his six years in power. In proclaiming Gennady I.

The Kremlin, seeking ever more desperately to save the collapsing national economy, is preparing proposals for a program akin to the Marshall Plan for the Soviet Union, Prime Minister Valentin S. Pavlov said in an interview released Sunday. Pavlov gave no details on his ideas for winning the kind of massive aid that the United States provided to post-World War II Europe, but said he is convinced that "what we need is a long-term program for the attraction of foreign investment."

Rarely in the long catalogue of human folly has a band of seemingly rational men been so willfully perverse. The plot to unseat Mikhail S. Gorbachev, led by the custodians of the most powerful institutions in the Soviet Union, was so wooden-headed, so inimical to the goals that they hoped to achieve as to defy imagination. These eight gray men set out to turn the clock back to a sterner, safer time.

Oleg D. Baklanov, former Defense Council vice chairman; member of State Emergency Committee Valery I. Boldin, Gorbachev's former chief of staff Major Gen. Vyacheslav V. Generalov, KGB commander at Gorbachev vacation retreat in Phoros Vladimir A. Kryuchkov, former KGB head; member of State Emergency Committee Anatoly I. Lukyanov, chairman of the Supreme Soviet, accused of treason Vladimir Medvedev, Gorbachev's former adjutant Valentin S.

Ivan Silayev, Russian Federation prime minister, was named head of a committee that will decide how the Soviet economy should be run and name a new Cabinet of Ministers. Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev has asked the national Parliament to debate a no-confidence motion in the government of former Soviet Prime Minister Valentin S. Pavlov, arrested for being a coup plotter. A SILAYEV PROFILE: Born in 1930; joined the Communist Party in 1959 after studying aeronautics.

Five of the eight leaders of the failed Kremlin coup have been arrested and another committed suicide, officials said. ARRESTED Vice President Gennady I. Yanayev Defense Minister Dmitri T. Yazov KGB chief Vladimir A. Kryuchkov Alexander I. Tizyakov, president of the Assn. of State Enterprises Soviet Defense Council Deputy Oleg D. Baklanov, after parliamentary immunity lifted SOUGHT FOR ARREST Head of Soviet Peasants Union Vasily A.

Two days after hard-liners ousted Mikhail S. Gorbachev, his whereabouts remains shrouded in mystery. Even President Bush has not been able to reach him by telephone despite repeated attempts. But reports of possible sightings of Gorbachev circulated furiously in Moscow. Three members of the eight-man committee of coup leaders reportedly had resigned or were "ill"--Defense Minister Dmitri T. Yazov, Prime Minister Valentin S. Pavlov and KGB chief Vladimir A. Kryuchkov.

Eight men, some previously little known to all but the most assiduous of Kremlinologists, or specialists on Soviet politics, have now placed themselves at the helm of the world's other superpower, claiming to exercise all power. Although the precise involvement of the increasingly conservative Soviet Communist Party with the Emergency Committee created by the eight is still shadowy, many of the committee's members occupy positions in the top party hierarchy.

Mikhail S. Gorbachev, whose bold reform policies brought democracy to the Soviet Union and ended the Cold War, was replaced early today as president of his country, ostensibly for health reasons. Vice President Gennady I. Yanayev, named the chairman of the "State Committee on the Emergency Situation in the U.S.S.R.," took over as president.

Eight men, some previously little known to all but the most assiduous of Kremlinologists, or specialists on Soviet politics, have now placed themselves at the helm of the world's other superpower, claiming to exercise all power. Although the precise involvement of the increasingly conservative Soviet Communist Party with the Emergency Committee created by the eight is still shadowy, many of the committee's members occupy positions in the top party hierarchy.

The apparent right-wing putsch that ousted President Mikhail S. Gorbachev early Monday puts into immediate question all the reforms--in political, economic and foreign policy--that the Soviet leader had implemented in his six years in power. In proclaiming Gennady I.

Mikhail S. Gorbachev, whose bold reform policies brought democracy to the Soviet Union and ended the Cold War, was replaced early today as president of his country, ostensibly for health reasons. Vice President Gennady I. Yanayev, named the chairman of the "State Committee on the Emergency Situation in the U.S.S.R.," took over as president.