1.   As India gains confidence that the worst of its plague epidemic is over, the country is being swept by a wave of anger and self-reproach.

2.   A major fallout of the plague epidemic in India late last year may be pesticide poisoning, Clyde warned.

3.   Although anxiety over the plague epidemic appears to be receding, the crisis is not over.

4.   Comparable plague epidemics occurred with less notice in Peru, Vietnam and Zaire in recent years.

5.   From Surat, the plague epidemic has spread to all of Gujarat and parts of Rajasthan to the north, and Maharashtra to the east.

6.   The government halted the repatriation and began holding ships from India for seven days in quarantine during the plague epidemic before allowing them to Sri Lankan ports.

7.   The repatriation of Sri Lankan Tamil refugees from southern India will resume next week, nearly six months after it was suspended following a brief plague epidemic in India.

8.   Flight attendants had petitioned their management to cancel or reroute all flights to India until the plague epidemic there ends, local dailies said here Monday.

9.   Iranian newspapers and diplomats said the visit had been called off because of a plague epidemic which hit India at the time.

10.   Air Canada said Tuesday it would probably resume flights between Canada and India on Thursday that had been suspended because of concerns over contamination from a plague epidemic.