31.   Officials Thursday acted to head off any panic over mad cow disease, planning newspaper advertisements that say Italian beef is guaranteed safe.

32.   Panic over mad cow disease swept Europe on Wednesday, with French chefs abandoning beef specialties, Italian schools cutting beef from menus and French leaders convening emergency meetings.

33.   On Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, while Dunstan was still at large, Australia was gripped by panic over urban terrorism.

34.   Rock and other government officials have called for calm, warning that panic over any unusual substance only overburdened security and emergency services.

35.   Prime Minister John Major rejected the proposal, made by the National Farmers Union, and accused opposition parties of fomenting needless panic over beef.

36.   Regulators are furiously trying to stem fraud arising from the public panic over the anthrax crisis.

37.   Sjahril appealed to the public not to panic over the bank liquidation move, saying the government will guarantee all bank deposits.

38.   The Belgian government has called for anthrax checks on packages of medicines as a precautionary measure, but pharmacists warned Tuesday the move risked increasing panic over the disease.

39.   With the panic over Mexico receding, the immediate worry facing finance ministers from major industrialized countries may be easing before they started meeting Friday evening.

40.   Commentators here have speculated that the apparent administrative cover-up was intended to prevent panic over the confidentiality of immigration information.