REDS, BROWNS HAIL QUADRIPARTITE AGREEMENT — BUT IT MAY DIVIDE THE CIS.

Communist party chairman Gennady Zyuganov and ultranationalist leader Vladimir Zhirinovsky, Yeltsin’s competitors for the presidency, promptly praised the March 29 Russia-Belarus-Kazakhstan-Kyrgyzstan agreement on a "commonwealth of integrated states" (see Monitor, March 31) and credited Yeltsin personally for acting in the spirit of the Duma’s March 15 resolution, which invalidated the dissolution of the USSR. Zyuganov, Zhirinovsky, and Duma First Vice Chairman Aleksandr Shokhin of the governmental "Russia is Our Home" bloc all echoed Yeltsin on the need to create a legislative basis for "maximum integration," including political integration during