World IN BRIEF : SOVIET UNION : Kremlin Reins In Leningrad TV

President Mikhail S. Gorbachev has put Leningrad’s radical television station under his control, and city officials are furious, Soviet media reported. Mayor Anatoly Sobchak and other officials of the second-largest Soviet city complained that the move to make Leningrad TV a subsidiary of the national television company will reduce its editorial independence. Leningrad TV, which reaches 70 million people, has broadcast sharp criticisms of Gorbachev. National TV is controlled by a Gorbachev appointee. Sobchak said he will appeal to Gorbachev to reverse the decision and allow the Leningrad City Council to create an independent broadcast company.