As enthusiastic contingents of volunteers left for the front, fear of counterrevolutionary plots gripped the capital.
The fear of parallel plots was also spelled out in the confidential investigative report, which said, "At the moment it cannot be ruled out that unexposed members or sympathizers of the I.J.U. are adhering to the original plans".
The bombing appeared to have deep political implications, giving credence to longstanding fears of a plot to eliminate the governing March 14 movement's razor-thin majority in Parliament.
In the past two weeks, Mr. Mubarak's former spy chief, Omar Suleiman, began a short-lived campaign from inside the office of the intelligence services that set off fears of a plot to restore the old order.
He deftly raises the stakes until the audience dares not breathe for fear of missing a plot point.
This is partly, as in any discussion of a crime novel, for fear of spoiling the plot.
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In May, the "Gilchrist Document" aroused Sukarno's fear of a military plot to overthrow him, a fear which he mentioned repeatedly during the next few months.
Hitchcock did most of the promotion on his own, forbidding Leigh and Perkins to make the usual television, radio, and print interviews for fear of their revealing the plot.
