Word: panic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Suspicious Greeks. Everywhere there were the tragedies and anomalies of war. One Turkish plane hit a Nicosia mental hospital, killing at least 20 patients and throwing the rest into a panic. One small boy rolled on the ground in hysteria and chewed pieces of broken glass. Greek Cypriots defending Nicosia periodically popped into available apartments to sip soda and listen to radio reports of how they were doing. But strangest and saddest of all was that the first battle between Greeks and Turks in seven years had been touched off by bitter animosity between Greek and Greek. The root...
...Jekyll and Mr. Hyde through A Clockwork Orange, research scientists have been gumming things up, thereby giving the screaming fits to threatened humanists who run out to sound the alarm. In The Terminal Man, the machines, true to form, run amuck, but it is only a two-alarm panic. The twist-it can hardly be called a novelty-is that this time the machine is a man, one Harry Benson, who has had a computer implanted in his brain. Subject to unpredictable fits of rage, Benson used to beat his wife and take potshots at the neighbors. He has been...
...FUTURE OF WHITES IN THE TERRITORIES. "I see no reason for alarm on the part of the [white] population of Mozambique about the possibility of a massive return to Europe in a moment of panic. I know that the Frelimo people, who are responsible men fully aware of the part they are playing, have undertaken to safeguard the legitimate rights of the white population. They think that in the future they will need the technical and economic cooperation of this population...
European bankers worry that some day one government, most likely Italy's, will default on paying interest on its loans, putting several banks under and setting off a Continent-wide banking panic. Even if that is avoided, the most strapped nations will be sorely tempted to cut their imports of nonpetroleum goods so that they can save cash to pay for the oil, a strategy that could cripple world trade. Italy in April did in fact clamp restrictions on many non-oil imports, to the anger of its eight partners in the European Common Market, who fortunately...
...Szulc tells it, the Soviets played a much bigger role in salvaging the stalled Viet Nam negotiations than they have been credited with. The essential breakthrough came in the Soviet Union after the North Vietnamese launched their Easter offensive in 1972. The Communist onslaught created "a sense of panic in the White House" that the Saigon regime might collapse. Kissinger, who went to Moscow in April to set up Richard Nixon's May summit with Soviet Party Leader Leonid Brezhnev, tried to enlist Russian aid in containing the North Vietnamese drive. During his visit, Kissinger told the Russians that...