European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 29, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 12 the stars and stripes world i september 29,1994 doctor fearing plague bolts Hospital new Delhi India Apas the government tried to prevent panic about the plague one of its top doctors fled a new Delhi Hospital where he was being treated for plague symptoms. Or. . Rehman Deputy director of the National Institute or communicable diseases began coughing with a High fever after touring the Western City of Surat where the pneumonic plague broke out eight Days ago and began spreading across India ignoring the advice of his colleagues he left new. Delhi s infectious diseases Hospital on tuesday prompting the hos Pital to complain formally to the govern ment. Some newspapers said Rehman found the Hospital too dirty and followed his family s advice to return Home. Also tuesday doctors physically re strained another plague patient to pre vent him from leaving the Hospital and a woman with plague symptoms sneaked out at night past police guards. Front Page stories about Rehman appeared m Many of new Delhi s daily newspapers wednesday. Some of the also contained articles explaining How pneumonic plague can be spread by fleas from infected rats or by coughs or sneezes from sick people. Pneumonic plague can be cured with antibiotics such As tetracycline but hundreds of doctors joined the estimated 400,000 people who fled Surat when the plague broke out. Two pharmacies in new Delhi said they ran out of tetracycline Days ago and Haven t been Able to afford Black Market prices for More. At least nine confirmed cases of the disease have spread hundreds of Miles away to new Delhi and Calcutta and a a Barber wearing a mask to guard against infection from rapidly spreading pneumonic plague shaves a customer tuesday in Surat India. Suspected cases Are being examined in Many other states across India. At least 54 people have died in Surat including three tuesday. Unofficial Estir mates put the death toll As High As 300. In new Delhi on wednesday City workers began carrying out prime min ister . Narasimha s order to remove All garbage from City streets especially in the Many shantytowns. Near new Delhi s main Railroad Sta Tion where Many people were wearing handkerchiefs around their faces to avoid germs about 30 workers were cleaning up Mounds of garbage lying in the streets and overflowing Metal garbage bins that cows often eat from. I have been working round the clock we just can t keep up with All the Gar Bage lying around worker Kali Chara said. ,. ,. His supervisor Amar Chand said the City apparently has hired hundreds of new garbage collectors. But residents weren t impressed by the cleanup Effort. The government Only bothers witty this when there s a plague. What were the authorities doing before said Seeta Sharma a homemaker who lives in one of Many tie Arby apartment buildings. Sharma said she has forbidden her three children to play Cricket or visit friends in the streets. They Wear hand kerchiefs around their faces As they ride to school in bicycle rickshaws. In a nearby slum a woman was Wash ing clothes outside her shabby mud and Straw Horne using a City water tap. Run told there is some kind of a fever going around spread by rats but i Don t know anything about it. Rats have always been a part of our life Here in the  All of a sudden Why should we worry now said 60-year-old Thul Wati Bai. Across India government officials Are urging Calm but also stepping up efforts to find the sick Rush antibiotics to phar Macies and Spray insecticide to kill Dis ease carrying fleas. To broadcasts contain Basic information about the plague. At City train and bus stations loud speakers Are ordering arriving passengers with any ailment to report to Volunteer doctors working around the clock. Italian labor unions set to strike oct. 14 Rome a Italy s labor unions set the stage wednesday for a pitched Battle with prime minister Silvio Berlusconi s conservative government declaring a general strike oct. 14 in an Effort to halt promised cutbacks in welfare state Bene fits. The announcement came after pension Reform talks Between the government and labor federations broke Down tues Day night. The credibility of Berlusconi a Multi millionaire businessman is Riding on his efforts to rein in the budget deficit. The government is hoping for major savings from the bloated and fraud riddled pen Sion system. While the government was drawing the anger of unions financial markets re acted favourably to the budget cutting moves. The government has done its Job while the unions Are acting with an antiquated View said a Rome Stock trader who asked that his name not be used. Berlusconi who promised in the ejection Campaign not to raise taxes intends to Cut spending and tax evasion wide spread in Italy. China hands Over remains of 2 airmen killed in Wii Large selection of new and used Nintendo & Sega games 2-fom on selected titles hundreds of movies to rent for Only$1.50/day. Most game rentals $1.50/oay, so week used games starting at $13,80 computer Junction pc computer vertries a Mph am Guterba Hoff 2, 69115 Heidelberg Tel 06221 24926 right behind pm in Heidelberg  a jew is is .y/?y2w/m?mi.jys/sm7 Yoy by air 4w./. We Beijing a China gave the . Government wednesday the remains of two american airmen killed during world War ii when their plane crashed in Tibet. The two airmen were part of . Efforts to support chinese troops fighting invading japanese forces. Nearly 500u.s. Planes were shot Down or crashed during the 1942-1945 Airlift Over the Himalayas from northeastern India to China s landlocked forces based in Kunming. About 40 remain unaccounted for. . Officials did not give the identities of the service members. The crash site of a cargo plane was Dis covered in september 1993 by a tibetan Hunter. A team of local authorities and the chinese army recovered the bodies of three of the five Crew members an turned them Over to the United states last december. Earlier this month a joint . Chinese recovery team returned to the site and recovered the remains of the other two Crew members. The remains were Given to the . Government in a Brief ceremony at the Babashan revolutionary cemetery1 in Beijing. Fourteen officials from both countries saluted the two Large White boxes each topped with a folded american Flag. China also handed Over altimeters and two pieces from the plane s Landing gear wheel cover. The remains Are to be flown to the . Army Central identification Laboratory in Hawaii. The plane crashed into a Glacier in northeastern Tibet on dec. 31, 1944. It is believed to have encountered High winds and icy conditions. . Members of the recovery team said conditions on the Glacier at an Elevation of 14,000 feet helped preserve the remains. The remains were found scattered in seven places and wreckage from the crash covered an area measuring 200 Yards by 1,000 Yards. One member who spoke on condition of anonymity said the remains were More Complete than the usual fragmented remains of just a few Teeth and Bones that arc often recovered at crash Sites in Southeast Asia. Fragments of a leather flight jacket with a name Tab and flight pants were also recovered. The Best Little Bazaar in Stuttgart come to the Kelley saturday 1 october. W-5 sunday 2 october 10-3 food Booths quilt exposition Kelley Barracks fitness Center a sponsored by the  Kelley Community volunteers association a a open to . 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