Word: panic
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Despite the panic, the case against cellular phones is nowhere near as strong as the ones mounted against electric power lines, electric blankets or even hand-held police radars. Dozens of highway patrolmen have come forward to complain of tumors of the eye, the cheek or the testicles (from jamming radar guns between their legs). And there is a growing body of evidence showing that living near power lines can quadruple the risk of contracting childhood leukemia...
Monitors from other European states said the campaign had been "tainted by shameless propaganda in the state-run media," which labeled Milosevic's opponent, the Serbian-born American businessman Milan Panic, a spy and a traitor. The poll watchers also reported that election lists had been rigged in Milosevic's favor and that 5% of potential voters were prevented from casting their ballots...
...I.R.A. attack that authorities have managed to disrupt in the past two weeks, although last April three people were killed in a spectacular bombing that caused $1 billion in damage to the financial district. In the Northern Ireland capital of Belfast, meanwhile, 27 bystanders were injured last week when panic broke out upon discovery of a bomb hidden in a travel agency. Said Michael Mates, British security minister for Northern Ireland: "It is a sad fact of life that it is virtually impossible to deliver total protection...
...LIKE SERBIAN PRESIDENT Slobodan Milosevic crave the legitimacy only elections can bestow; what is vexing is the chance of losing. So he fixed the odds. Milosevic now risks almost nothing in upcoming Dec. 20 balloting, since the Serbian Electoral Commission disqualified his most formidable opponent, Yugoslavian Prime Minister Milan Panic, for failing to meet a one-year residency requirement...
...Panic, a businessman who made a fortune in California before taking up his post in July, appealed the decision to the Serbian Supreme Court, but that body is headed by the same man who heads the Electoral Commission. Leading opposition figures, citing other electoral shenanigans from the Milosevic camp, have threatened to boycott the elections altogether. (See related story on page...