European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 28, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 10 the stars and stripes world wednesday september 28,1994 plague hits new Delhi spreads in Rural areas Surat India a the first cases of pneumonic plague outside this stricken City were confirmed tuesday More than 700 Miles away in the capital new Delhi. Since the disease broke out in Surat week ago at least 54 people have died. The 400,000 residents who fled appear to be spreading it to Rural areas of Gujarat  the neighbouring state of Maharashtra another form of the illness bubonic plague has spread front villages where it broke out last month to Beed a town about 250 Miles Southeast of Surat officials said. No deaths have been reported but 90 people with bubonic plague we retreated in Rural areas acid Beed now has 31 cases. The first plague cases in India in 30years were spread by fleas from infected rats or germs from sick people. Despite the spread of the disease the world health organization said it is Loo Early to say India will suffer plague epidemic. Who is worried that the plague i spreading to Many places but there is no need to panic yet or. . A Bengian a who official in new Delhi said tuesday. Antibiotics Are Avail Able and the government has intensified the surveillance of the  antibiotics can cure both the pneumonic plague and the bubonic plague Aless deadly form that ravaged 14th-Cen Tury Europe and Asia As the Blackheath. But the diseases could cause havoc i India s Many Rural areas where millions of poor people have no Access to medi Cine or doctors. Many of the people who fled Sura last week went 160 Miles South to bom Bay but the first confirmed cases of pneumonic plague outside Surat were reported tuesday in new Delhi 730 Miles to the Northeast. Six people who had fled Surat were recently admitted to the infectious diseases Hospital in new Delhi and two of them tested positive for pneumonic plague a doctor said. At the capital s train stations tuesday Loudspeaker ordered arriving passengers with plague symptoms to report to doctors working there around the  police have been ordered to Rush anyone with plague symptoms to the Hospital. And hundreds of peo ple were asking doctors questions about the plague. In Bombay 10 suspected pneumonic plague patient were admitted to hospitals tuesday raising the total to 42, health officials said. But tests Haven t found an cases of plague yet. A woman wearing a protective mask uses a Broom to sweep Street rub Bish into a fire in plague Ridden Surat India on monday. To House surveys around Bombay looking for people with plague symptoms officials said. Bombay India s largest City has.12.5 million people. More than half of them live in slums. Hospitals in Ahmadabad the largest City in Gujarat and the bordering states of Rajasthan and Adhya Pra Desh also Are examining several dozens of patients with suspected plague in Surat a port City in Western India doctors and soldiers were searching filthy shantytowns for More plague victims and guarding civil Hospital to Stop infectious patients from fleeing. Hundreds of private doctors fled Surat where 2 Mil lion people live when the plague broke out. On Mon Day angry people ransacked the clinics of two doctors and burned some of the furniture in the streets police about 2,500 paramedical workers conducted House said. No injuries were reported. Killing stuns american but most vow to Moscow a american students in Moscow Are shaken by the slaying of a fellow student in his Dor Mitory but their desire to stay and study Russia s Cul Ture and language has not dimmed. They Are not letting this discourage them Elisha Hall assistant resident director of the american collegiate consortium said monday. One of the consortium s Exchange students Anthon Riccio 21, was strangled with a rope then tossed off a 16th-Story dormitory Balcony last week. The four other students in his program have decided to leave Moscow and study elsewhere in Russia Hall said. Riccio of Glastonbury conn., was a Junior from Rhode Island s Brown University. He had been in rus Sia Only a few weeks when his body was found on the ground outside his dormitory at russian state humanities University. A russian Coroner s report said Riccio had been strangled with a rope before plunging to the ground. Russian police tried to suggest it was suicide. But the students in Russia Coroner underlined the word murder to describe the death the . Embassy said in a statement. A pathologist for the state of Connecticut perform Dah autopsy sunday. Associate medical examiner Ira Kanfer who was hired by the Riccio family said he found evidence of trauma. With Sharp rises in crime and corruption especially in Moscow and St. Petersburg american Scholastic programs Are urging people to study in provincial towns. Moscow today is not the world of Chekhov or tur Genev. It s not even the world of textbooks written in the late 1980s," said Paul Smith cultural attache forthe . Embassy. We try to portray a Moscow just As dangerous As big cities in the ., which Means students must take  despite the crime wave Exchange program official said students Are enrolling in record numbers. Ecuador president assures country he s still alive from the associated press Quito Ecuador saying reports of his death were greatly exaggerated president Sixto Duran Baleen has assured the nation that he s very much alive. Clearly bothered by the reports of his death Dutan Ballen asked the news Media sunday night to Tell the Public they had seen my in the flesh. Make it Clear Tehfe citizens that you have see me personally and not in visions he said. Duran Ballen was responding to a sunday radio broadcast in Quito that reported his death. The news reached the foreign Media and an alarmed first lady Josefina Villalobos called the president from Argentina where she is visiting to see if the report was True he said. How could someone be so irresponsible As to pass news of this nature without verifying it a angry Duran Ballen asked. He did not reveal which radio station  news or How it was transmitted outside Ecuador. Crash hurts British tourists Palm a Balearic islands one briton was recovering in Hospital tuesday after a Road acc dentin which 29 British tourists were injured and a Spanish truck Driver killed. The Accident happened when a bus taking More than 40 britons to Palma s Airport for a flight Home monday evening collided head on with a truck said a spokesman at the British consulate. He said 29 tourists were injured in the Accident but Only one remained hospitalized tuesday. There were no details on the identity of the Spanish truck Driver killed or the hospitalized briton. The Spanish islands Are located in the Western Mediterranean off the nation s Eastern coast. "./. Strike hits rail service Lisbon Portugal rail transport Between Portugal and the rest of Europe was Tut off tuesday in the second Day of a strike by conductors. High Speed service Between major portuguese cities also was Cut said Lourdes Rebelo spokeswoman for the state rail company up. The walkout is the third in two months by coworkers who Are demanding that their workweek be reduced from 42.5 hours to 40 and their contract conditions be improved. Intercity travellers will be rerouted to the regional lines in Many cases doubling the travel time. Some 270 trains 80 of them International have been cancelled this week because of the strike. Vote results overturned Mexico City a court has reversed two election victories for the governing party based on irregularities found at the polls. The election court awarded a congressional seating Michoacan state to the leftist democratic revolution party and another to the Center right National action party in the West Central state of Jalisco. The court ruling sunday gave the National action party 10 seats in Jalisco As Many As the governing institutional revolutionary  at the polls included pressure on voters opposition votes thrown out an unaccredited voters allowed to cast ballots in the aug. 21 elections. The democratic revolution party has claimed widespread election fraud throughout Mexico. Its newly captured seat is in the Zacapu District a enter of emigration to the United states. Official returns showed the governing party Takin about 50 percent of the vote nationwide for the presidency and for Congress. Grenade blast kills 5 kids Bingol Turkey five children playing with a grenade were killed when one pulled the pin an the grenade exploded the Anatolia news Agency said sunday. The children Ages 8 to 11, found the grenade while playing in a Garden saturday in the Southeastern town of Bingol. The explosion also injured two other children. The source of the grenade was not immediately known. The kurdish workers party has been waging violent Campaign for autonomy in the Region since 19s4. More than 13,000 people have died in the violence so far