Word: hysterias
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...Said the Soviet President: "The U.S. loudly demands the withdrawal of Soviet troops but in fact is doing everything to put off this possibility; it is continuing to build up its interference in the affairs of Afghanistan." In a direct attack on Jimmy Carter, he declared: "The anti-Soviet hysteria was needed for somebody riding the crest of this wave to win the presidential election in the autumn." But then, in what may have been a subtle deviation from the Kremlin's hitherto intransigent line, Brezhnev made the point that the Soviets would withdraw their troops when outside interference...
Said Chief Medical Examiner James Weston: "Virtually every one of the bodies had overkill, which is to say that there was more than mob hysteria. There was rage." Added Dr. Marc Orner, the psychologist at the prison: "None of us really understands what happened in there...
...Aside from two skill-testing parlor games, Family Feud and The $20,000 Pyramid, all the current shows celebrate the theater of cruelty and the entertainment values of Las Vegas. Masochistic contestants meet fourth-rate Hollywood celebrities in a neon-lit orgy of product plugola, group hysteria and psychological mayhem...
...oppose any nationalistic hysteria that diverts attention from pressing domestic problems...
...result of White House policy, "anti-Soviet hysteria is virtually raging in the U.S.," said Leonid Zamyatin, chief of the International Information Department of the Central Committee. Speaking on Soviet television last week, Zamyatin declared that America's "economic and political blackmail" of the U.S.S.R. stemmed from Carter's desperate bid for reelection. "In order to score points as a presidential candidate, Carter decided to distract American attention from domestic problems by creating international tensions," charged Zamyatin, who is one of President Leonid Brezhnev's chief foreign policy advisers...