Word: hysterias
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...governments of fascism. The controlled press, TV and TASS all recited the propaganda line on Vilnius last week, reporting that the paratroops acted only to restore order after they had been attacked by Lithuanian snipers. One report from commentator Alexander Nevzorov presented the soldiers as heroes besieged by "ethnic hysteria." The 15 dead, he claimed, had turned out to be victims of road accidents and heart attacks...
Confusion and Hysteria...
When the initial reports were aired, confusion and hysteria about the supposed attack spread quickly in the Harvard community. Some said they had heard there was an explosion at the Italian library, while others thought Harvard's Cambridge campus had been the target of an attack...
...goal of a revised CDC policy is commendable enough: to rebuild the trust necessary between doctors and patients. But the agency may be in danger of overreacting. Pandering to fears rather than presenting facts is no way to cure public hysteria...
THIS course of action does not aid the hundreds of American and other hostages who remain trapped in Iraq and Kuwait. How many of them will survive the severe hardship and possible hysteria that a successful long-term embargo might engender? It is possible that they will be reasonably well treated to maintain their status as "human shields"; it is just as possible that they will be used as leverage against American opinion in more sinister ways...