Word: panic
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Senators at a packed Capitol Hill hearing embracedPresident Clinton's new plan to combat terrorism, but several urged a "go-slow" approach toavoid trampling on civil liberties. "I don't want us to panic," said Joseph Biden (D-Del.). Even Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole (R-Kan.), thepresident's leading rival for 1996, straddled the fence: "America will not be paralyzed into inaction by those who have committed this evil deed," Dole said, referring to theOklahoma City bombing. But he also said there was "no big rush here" to pass legislation...
...there is a peace that passeth all understanding, Vietnam may be the war that passeth all understanding. In the following pages, as we convey the panic and heroism of Saigon's last hours and describe Vietnam as it is today, as we explore the myths of the lessons of the war and offer a novelist's meditation on its end, we hope to shed some light on a place where memory burns, but darkness still prevails...
...March 1975 signaled that South Vietnam could no longer muster either the strength or the will to hold off the armies sweeping down from the communist North. The fall of Danang late in the month produced scenes of horror that appeared to foreshadow what might happen later in Saigon: panic-maddened South Vietnamese soldiers trampling women and children to get aboard the last American 727 to fly out; desperate soldiers clinging to the landing gear of that plane only to fall off into the South China Sea or be crushed against the undercarriage...
...once confided to White House photographer David Hume Kennerly, Martin feared even whispering the word "evacuation" would set off a Danang-style panic. But the ambassador also believed more fervently, and longer than almost anyone else, in the possibility of an accommodation with the communists. As late as April 28 he was cabling Kissinger that he foresaw Americans staying in Saigon for "a year or more." By then, Gotterdammerung was well under...
...estimated 2,000 died in Rwanda when government soldiers opened fire on a refugee camp. Some were felled by bullets and mortar fire, but many were trampled in the ensuing panic. Tens of thousands of refugees fled the camp in Kibeho toward the provincial capital of Butare. Another 600, some armed with rifles and grenades, holed up in a church and vowed to die before surrendering to government troops. The group is apparently made up ofhard-line Hutus fearing reprisalfrom the Tutsi-led government army forlast year's killing of 500,000 Rwandans, most of them Tutsis. Kibeho was home...