World IN BRIEF : HUNGARY : Group Breaks From Social Democrats

A small group of Hungary’s Social Democrats broke away from the main party at its first congress in four decades, blaming the leadership for being too liberal and bourgeois. Budapest Radio said 60 to 65 delegates led by lawyer Gyoergy Ruttner walked out on the second day of the 600-member congress to form an Independent Social Democratic Party. “The rebels say that a Social Democratic party can only be left-wing, and the atmosphere in the old party’s congress is slipping into a right-wing, bourgeois, liberal direction which they describe as intolerable,” the radio said.