European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 25, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 10 the stars and stripes world sunday september 25, 1994 n. Korea Balking in talks . Says sues agreed to at the end of the last round of talks in. August including the matter of compensation for Energy lost during the freezing of its nuclear pro gram.,. ". He did not elaborate on what other shifts in position had taken place. The negotiations which began Friday Are aimed at prying open North Korea s secretive nuclear weapons program. American experts believe that nation Al ready has produced at least one nuclear weapon. North Korea maintains its nuclear program is peaceful. The chief . Negotiator Robert Gal Lucci and his North korean counterpart Geneva a the Gulf betwee North korean and american negotiators Over the communist country s secretive nuclear program appeared to have wid ened saturday As the United states accused Pyongyang of changing its position on some agreed Points. Despite upbeat comments saturday from the chief North korean negotiator a senior . Official speaking on Condi Tion of anonymity said no Progress had been made. The official who is part of the . Delegation briefed reporters after the talks. He said the North koreans had taken a creative approach on some of the is toll climbs As indians flee plague Surat India a fearful Resi dents jammed into trains saturday in Des Perate attempts to join 200,000 people who have fled a plague outbreak that has killed at least 44. The number of cases Rose to 290 on saturday As hospitals in this Western Indi an City reported 35 new victims. The government has not confirmed newspaper reports that More than 70 people died during the last three Days. Pharmacies saw panic buying and hoarding of antibiotics that can cure the plague. City officials delivering new sup plies got police guards after some looting of the drugs was reported. There have been incidents of people looting Medicine that were carried to affected areas said Kur Idah Lai a City administrator. At 3 a.m., it looked like morning Rush hour at the Surat Railroad station. People carrying Small suitcases in one hand and infants in the other mobbed the plat forms and squeezed into trains. The Federal government airlifted 8 Mil lion capsules of antibiotics to Surat to restock pharmacies and hospitals that had been besieged for drugs. Hospital required everyone entering to cover their faces with handkerchiefs. Indian television said the government official Burns self to death Over pollution Kang Sok jul decided to step Back after More than six hours of opening discussions Friday and let their deputies take Over. The deputies met for just two hours saturday before adjourning. . Officials said the talks would continue today at the same working level. The lower level discussions seemed to provide the Best Hope of making Prog Ress they  warned at the Start of saturday s meeting that joint .-japanese naval exercises off Eastern North Korea which started monday posed a military threat to the North and could derail the Nego residents of Surat India wait to Board a train saturday to escape the fatal plague. Was appealing to the United states and Russia for More Medicine. Health authorities in new Delhi the capital confirmed the diagnosis of pneumonic plague a deadlier Strain than the bubonic plague that hit an area 300 Miles to the Southeast late last month. No deaths have been reported among the 155 cases of bubonic plague being treated in the state of Maharashtra. The bubonic plaque also known As the Black death ravaged Europe and parts of Asia in the 14th Century. The plague had not hit India in 30 years. Surat a Diamond polishing City in the state of Gujarat on India s Western coast is ringed with shanty towns and open sew ers prime Breeding grounds for disease. Rats which carry fleas that spread the plague multiplied recently after Mon soon Rains flooded parts of the City. To nations. Gallucci denied the exercises posed a threat. They were routine and Well with in the realm of things the . Navy would be expected to do to maintain readiness he said. Key issues of the meetings which began in August include North Korea s refusal to allow special International inspections of two military Sites that nuclear experts think May have been used for atomic waste. North Korea claims they Are military facilities and says inspections out of the question until both sides build up Trust and have Normal  -. .-.-.  student re in Moscow dorm i  a an american Exchange student in Moscow was strangled with a rope then tossed off a 16th-Sjory dormitory Balcony news reports said Fri Day. Anthony Riccio 21, of Glastonbury conn., had been in Russia Only a few weeks when his body was found on the ground outside his dormitory tuesday a rope around his neck the reports said quoting a . Embassy statement. An autopsy showed that Riccio a Junior at Brown University in Providence r.i., was strangled the . State department said according to Abc news. On the summary autopsy report the Coroner underlined the word murder to describe the death a state department statement said. The prosecutor s office now must decide whether the Case merits a criminal investigation. Riccio was studying in the american collegiate consortium a program sponsored by Middlebury College in Vermont. He arrived in Moscow earlier this month to study at russian state humanities University for a year. The other four americans in the pro Gram Are being moved out of the Dormi to by a consortium official said. The Baltimore Sun said the russian University was making Money on the Side by renting dormitory rooms to Monstur dents including some Low level gangsters. Dresden Germany Jap " a county environmental official burned himself to death on a trash Heap after writing in. A suicide note that he wanted to sound an alarm about pollution officials said. Authorities were not saying Friday whether  Baer s  in a garbage dump in the county of Riesa Grossen Hain Northeast of Dresden in Eastern Germany might have been More than a protest against pollution. 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