Word: panic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...moment, relief officials on the ground were treating evacuation "as a last resort," said Foa. If U.N. troops do reach Srebrenica, the hope is that they will help quell panic among the population and thus make a massive evacuation unnecessary. They will also serve as what a U.N. spokesman called "the eyes and ears" of the world, and overseers of any laying down of arms. "People don't do dirty things in the night when international observers are walking around," said Foa. "I don't think the Serbs will risk the wrath of the world by moving...
...United Nations rescue convoys were well meant. But twice last week as the trucks lined up in Srebrenica to take on board their pathetic cargo, survival instincts got the better of a panic-stricken populace. Desperate to escape the encircled city where 60,000 Muslims have been trapped by the Bosnian Serb offensive, they stormed the transports. At least four, probably more, died in the stampedes and harried U.N. officials, already accused of abetting the Serb aim of ethnic cleansing by evacuating Muslims, called off further convoys until new security measures could be put in place...
...Peter D. Panic, a Harvard Square street juggler who was playing baseball in the common yesterday, the sight of a muddy park inspires theatrical notions...
...couple of days ago we could have had 'Shakespeare in the Mud' on this field," says Panic, referring to satirical plays done in muddy arenas...
Some prefer their catastrophes more mundane. For them we have economic apocalypse. It is hard to think of a time when the best-seller list did not feature a Crash of Nineteen-something book. A few years ago, it was The Crash of '79. Then The Panic of '89. (Same author!) Today it is Bankruptcy 1995. The idea is the same. Only the date gets pushed back...