MOSCOW, Aug. 19, 1991 (UPI) - The Kremlin's new rulers, moving swiftly Monday to clamp control over a nation stunned by the ouster of Mikhail Gorbachev, sent troops and tanks into the streets of Moscow and cracked down on the breakaway Baltic republics.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 19, 1991 (UPI) - President Bush condemned the ouster of Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev Monday night and supported a specific call by Russian leader Boris Yeltsin to restore the government and reaffirm Gorbachev's presidency.

MOSCOW, Aug. 19, 1991 (UPI) - Mikhail Gorbachev was removed as president of the Soviet Union in a coup Monday and replaced by hard-line Communists led by Vice President Gennady Yanayev. A six-month state of emergency was declared and tanks moved toward the Kremlin.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 19, 1991 (UPI) - Members of Congress, in a rare show of unity, denounced Monday the ouster of President Mikhail Gorbachev and made it plain that U.S. trade concessions, farm credits and ratification of the START nuclear treaty are in jeopardy.

The surprise ouster of Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev stunned the world Monday, with leaders expressing fears for the future of East-West relations and democratic development in the economically ailing superpower.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 20, 1991 (UPI) - The first words of the coup in the Soviet Union, which ousted President Mikhail Gorbachev, may have come over a fax machine in an empty office late Sunday night.While much of Washington slept or prepared to sleep at the end of the weekend, the fax machine in the Washington office of The Center for Democracy was silently screaming the alert: ''It is Military Coup. Tanks are everywhere.''

MOSCOW, Aug. 20, 1991 (UPI) - Signs mounted all last week of an emerging attempt to oust Mikhail Gorbachev, but they were dismissed by many as the usual August spate of rumors coinciding with his summer vacation.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 20, 1991 (UPI) - The following is a text of President Bush's statement on the overthrow of Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev.We are deeply disturbed by the events of the last hours in the Soviet Union and condemn the unconstitutional resort to force.

MOSCOW, Aug. 20, 1991 (UPI) - Thousands of Muscovites early Wednesday defied an overnight curfew imposed by the Kremlin's new hard-line leadership to protect Boris Yeltsin's Russian government headquarters in a showdown against Soviet mechanized troops. At least two people were killed.

MOSCOW, Aug. 22, 1991 (UPI) - Anatoly Lukyanov, said to be the mastermind of the botched coup against his former college friend Mikhail Gorbachev, was the most brilliant law student of his generation and wrote poetry of some acclaim in his spare time.

MOSCOW, Aug. 22, 1991 (UPI) - Mikhail Gorbachev denounced the former officials who led the coup against him as ''killers'' who would have destroyed the country and said Thursday their defeat proved the Soviet people would not allow reforms to be reversed.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 22, 1991 (UPI) - The failure of the Kremlin coup increases pressure on the Soviet leadership to recognize the independence of the Baltic republics.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 22, 1991 (UPI) -- President Bush hailed as a hero Boris Yeltsin, once dismissed by official Washington as a clown and a lush.

The restoration of Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev elicited Western cheers but seemed to baffle the world's remaining Communist and socialist regimes.

MOSCOW, Aug. 23, 1991 (UPI) - New U.S. Ambassador Robert Strauss, dispatched to Moscow during the coup against Mikhail Gorbachev, said Friday the Soviet people earned their freedom from communism by standing up against the military-backed takeover.Strauss was called away from a California vacation when the coup began, flown to Washington for a quick swearing-in, and arrived in Moscow Wednesday in time to see the coup collapse in the face of popular resistance led by Russian republic President Boris Yeltsin.