Word: panic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Although scarcely a shot was fired last week, Portugal's African "province" of Angola was in a state of panic. Fearful settlers from the back country streamed into Luanda with wives, children and household goods. They besieged airlines and shipping companies for passage home. Depositors stood in long lines outside Luanda banks, waiting to withdraw their money. In the northern region near the Congo, where some 200 settlers were massacred by black Angolan raiders last month, the Portuguese army issued submachine guns to the few settlers who chose to remain, and ordered them to spend their nights herded together...
...last week Laos' torpid, dusty administrative capital of Vientiane swarmed with crowds-but not in panic. Along the banks of the slow-moving Mekong River there were foot races, boxing and wrestling matches. At night the temple courtyards were filled with slim girls dancing to haunting flute music. A torchlight parade wound through the city, and everyone agreed that the most magnificent floats were those of the Royal Laotian Army...
Freud's classic example was of little Hans, aged five, who was panic-stricken at the idea of having to go out in the street. Why? Freud explained that little Hans had strong Oedipal feelings toward his mother; therefore he had hostility to ward his father and therefore anxiety. He repressed the anxiety and converted it into hippophobia ? he was afraid to go out be cause he was afraid of being castrated by the bite of a horse. To Freud the horse represented little Hans's father. This elaborate hypothesis neatly fitted Freud's preoccupation with castration fears, which...
...were treated to an excellent example of how a few screaming idiots can throw a group of people into a panic. This was the TV coverage of the United Nations spectator demonstration by a group of Lumumba supporters. This is the Communistic psychology in action. This is how to convert a crowd of thousands into a raging mob of head-bashing, flag-burning, window-breaking "supporters" of a cause. This is our price of tolerance. When will we realize that those who are out to destroy us, or who support those who are out to destroy us, should...
...made little effort to get out and meet the many other bickering faction leaders or to get acquainted with the Congolese people. Although Dayal claims that he has been "spiritually enriched" by the Congo experience, others see him as a bundle of nerves often on the verge of panic. Said one recent visitor: "He gets worked up about a problem, but when you try to get down to specifics, he lapses into vagueness at best and contradiction at worst...