Ousted Yeltsin Hospitalized, Paper Reports

Boris Yeltsin, the former protege of Kremlin leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev who was dismissed last week as head of Moscow’s Communist Party, has been hospitalized, the editor of the Soviet government newspaper Izvestia was quoted as saying today.

The Austria Press Agency reported from Innsbruck that Ivan D. Laptiev told reporters in the Tyrolean city that Yeltsin’s health had suffered during the recent political upheavals in Moscow. However, Laptiev was quoted as saying Yeltsin had not suffered a heart attack.

Laptiev said Yeltsin was resting at an unspecified hospital, the Austria Press Agency reported.

He went from the hospital to last week’s Moscow Communist Party meeting that decided on his dismissal and then returned to the hospital, Laptiev was quoted as saying.

Criticism Reiterated

The Austria Press Agency reporter who attended the news conference told the Associated Press by telephone that Laptiev declined despite repeated questions to give further details of the 56-year-old Yeltsin’s health.

Laptiev was in Innsbruck to deliver a lecture for the Austrian-Soviet Society, of which he is co-president.

Laptiev reiterated the criticism voiced by Gorbachev and other party officials at last week’s Moscow meeting that Yeltsin had worked undemocratically in Moscow and had clearly violated party statutes.