QUARANTINE TIGHTENS IN ZAIRE

Officials tightened their blockade of Kikwit and four other towns amid reports of people bribing police to let them out of thequarantine area where the deadly Ebola virus has been identified. At least 86 people have been killed so far by the virus. In Kinshasa, a nurse who fled the containment zone was placed in isolation as medical personnel tried to determine whether she is infected. Police had spent most of the day looking for the nurse and a riverboat captain who had travelled to Zaire's capital from Kikwit. The captain was found not to be infected and released. When foreign journalists who had visited Kikwit learned that they were to be quarantined as well, several fled to the Congo. Angola, seeking to prevent an outbreak, sent more troops to seal its border with Zaire.