European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 02, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 10 the stars and stripes world sunday october 2,1994 India scans air travellers for plague new Delhi India a in an Effort to prevent the plague from spreading to other countries doctors began examining every passenger leaving Indian air ports while workers fumigated jetliners officials said saturday. Two More deaths were reported in new Delhi on saturday raising the toll in the capital to four since the disease spread from the Western City of Surat two weeks ago Cabinet Secretary surinder Singh told a news conference. At least 58 people including 54 in Surat have died in the first outbreak of the plague in three decades. Unofficial estimates have put the death toll at More than 300. Thousands of passengers were stranded in airports after Many foreign airlines suspended flights out of India to prevent spread of the deadly disease which has triggered a nationwide panic. We always Spray insecticides in the planes but this time we Are checking very carefully to see that there Are no rats an Airport official in new Delhi said on condition of anonymity. Last year air India the nation s inter National Carrier had to postpone three flights to Tokyo new York and London after rats were found in the cockpit of each plane. Doctors at the country s four International airports Are issuing medical certificates to passengers leaving the country and no one has been found with plague symptoms since Friday night said Singh India s top bureaucrat. At least 15 countries including Canada Russia saudi Arabia and Qatar have suspended flights to and from Bombay Ana new Delhi meanwhile a lawyer has filed a Peti Tion in India s High court asking authorities to Clear the estimated 1 million tons of garbage in new Delhi the times of India newspaper reported. In his petition Janak Raj Jai said barely half of the 4,500 tons of garbage Gener ated in new Delhi every Day is being cleared making., the capital a Volcano of plague  plumes of smoke Rose across the Capi Tal As people burned garbage in their neighbourhoods saying the government cleanup was restricted to areas where government ministers and foreigners live. More than 250 people Are being treated for the plague at state hospitals and several thousand with plague symptoms have been examined across the country. Doctors said Many suspected plague victims actually have other Dis eases such As tuberculosis and pneumonia. After an estimated 400,000 fled Surat doctors reported dozens of suspected cases of pneumonic plague in new Delhi Maharashtra West Bengal Adhya Pra Desh Punjab and tamil Nadu. _ pneumonic plague is spread by air droplets Laden with bacteria from infected people but it is easily cured with antibiotics if caught Early. If untreated it is almost 100 percent fatal. In new Delhi thousands of people wrapped their faces to keep out germs As they shopped. Long lines formed at phar Macies stocking homeopathic drugs that reputedly cure the plague. Panicky buying in recent _ Days prompted the government to ban Over the counter sales of tetracycline an anti biotic used in the treatment of plague. In a travel advisory the world health organization said that Only Surat is an epidemic zone and that there is no re Striction on travelling to India. Autumn at arc autumn Days Are Beautiful and especially so in the bavarian Alps. 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Efforts to pry open the history of past activity and to Safe guard spent fuel Clinton administration officials said Friday in response to a disappointing account of negotiations in Geneva Secretary of state Warren Christopher reaffirmed the close ties the United states maintains with South Korea which is even More anxious than Washington about North Korea s program.  Analysts Are convinced the North s communist regime already has produce done or two nuclear weapons. The administration Hopes to halt further development through negotiations enticing Pyongyang with hints of commercial and diplomatic ties in Exchange for cooperation. But the officials said that the negotiations were deadlocked  Board and that the american delegation headed by assistant Secretary of state Robert Aliucci had not pursued any possibility of relations with the North koreans. Christopher had Thomas. Hubbard a senior american Diplomat Fly to Newyork from Geneva to Brief him in con " Junction with Christopher s 45-minute meeting with South korean foreign min ister Han Sung Joo. Lower level officials were left at the bargaining table in Geneva. This week Christopher who has been in new York for a special session of the . General Assembly will Confer with Gallucci and then will dispatch him to Geneva again to resume the negotiations. My guidance would still be not to write Bleak accounts because this round is still in an interim stage Christopher told reporters before his meeting with Han. But Christopher acknowledged that there has not been any Progress this week although there Are some Glimmer Ings of flexibility.". Other . Officials insisting on anonymity were equally pessimistic without writing off the round. They ticked off All the major issues from the . Stand Point As still deadlocked. These included the disposition of spent fuel the future of North k6teavexperi mental 5-megaw"att reactor that the United states wants replaced with technology less capable of producing weapons and Access to waste Sites that would provide an account of North Korea s past prac times. -.  epidemic strikes North Korea. Seoul South Korea a a Chol Era epidemic has erupted in coastal areas and some Inland cities of North Korea including the capital of Pyongyang South Korea s intelligence chief said Friday. Trains have been ordered not to Stop in the West coast City of Haejun 80 Miles South of Pyongyang because of the out break Kim Duk chief of the Agency for National Security planning told South korean lawmakers. His testimony was closed to reporters but was paraphrased by the committee s chairman rep. Shin Sang woo. North korean authorities have strengthened quarantine measures but the epidemic is spreading to Inland cities Kim was quoted As saying. The cause and extent of the outbreak the first reported in Many years were not known