Word: noninterventionist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Brits had one more reason not to antagonize the one shared by the State Department professionals who determined a noninterventionist U.S. policy despite President Nixon's expressed support for humanitarian aid: fear of expanding Soviet influence...
...Wisconsin Energy Administrator Roy Christiansen recalls: "The Feds didn't seem to be concerned, or want to deal with it." During the game, Wisconsin energy officials telexed Washington: "We hope it will not take the economic collapse of one of these cities . . . before the Administration realizes that its [noninterventionist] policies have failed and must be changed." Also miffed were Europeans, whose governments plan to allocate oil during a crisis, rather than trusting in the free-market approach the Reagan Administration prefers. Said one Dutch official: "The whole idea is to keep emergencies from resulting in vastly higher oil prices...