Word: panic
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...more useful bits of the trench reinforcements, Mam Rostam headed back to headquarters. So did I, where I found him again, still ebullient, chain smoking and complaining of a sore throat, but happy to talk. The withdrawal, the Kurdish commander said, was likely to set off a panic when the next Iraqi line suddenly sees 3,000 of their own put it in reverse. They'll keep retreating, he predicted...
...Still, Chinese health-care workers are unwilling to talk too openly; one Shanghai doctor reports that local hospitals were warned by municipal officials last Thursday not to speak to any media, even the state-controlled Xinhua News Agency. This muffling was mandated to quell public panic over the outbreak, says a Guangzhou journalist, whose newspaper received a gag order directly from the Central Propaganda Bureau in Beijing: "The party's biggest fear is social instability...
...that the disease has escaped its national borders, Beijing has more to worry about than just containing domestic panic. With cases of what has been formally dubbed Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) cropping up in no fewer than 13 countries, Chinese officials are coming under intense international pressure to allow foreign access to medical records, perhaps even to the patients themselves. Yet, as of last weekend, all the Health Ministry had offered up was a skimpy two-page document. Officials from the World Health Organization (WHO) would like to send a team of experts to southern China to investigate...
...know exactly what we need to do to win,” Pettit said. “We don’t panic, and we have a lot of experienced guys that have been there before. We’re going in with a lot of desperation, and we’re going to be able to win some big games...
...panic really began in Erbil on Monday. That was when people started to close their shops, buy supplies and head to the hills. On Monday about 75 percent of shops were open; by Wednesday less than half were still doing business. People were buying gas and jerrycans, and plastic sheeting for windows in case of a chemical weapons attack. Gas went from 50 cents a gallon to $2, plastic sheeting from 25 cents a meter to 65 cents...