WORLD : Mayors of Moscow, Leningrad Join Yeltsin in Quitting Party
<i> From Times Wire Services</i>
MOSCOW —
The mayors of Moscow and Leningrad today joined populist Boris N. Yeltsin and leaders of the reform bloc of the Communist Party by quitting the party in the first split since the time of Lenin.
Moscow Mayor Gavriil Popov and Leningrad Mayor Anatoly Sobchak issued a statement today saying they are quitting the party because of its inability to offer a realistic program for transition to a new society.
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