Word: noninterventionists
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...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...
With little action on the right, Brown has been cozying up to the left. He believes the Haydens can help him put together a national constituency based on opposition to nuclear power, all-out support of solar energy, attacks on big corporations, a noninterventionist foreign policy and a lingering nostalgia for the impassioned politics and communal undertakings of the 1960s. The Governor has even adopted much of the Haydens' rhetoric, including their favorite image for describing the energy crisis: "The Viet Nam of the 1980s...
...West Germany, Chancellor Helmut Schmidt's Social Democratic government, supported by powerful but reasonable trade unions, has largely held a noninterventionist course and ignored demands that the government cut taxes or raise spending every time a troubling economic forecast is issued. Result: West Germany's inflation rate is one-third as steep as the U.S.'s, its unemployment rate is only slightly over half as high, and the country's living standards are rising...
...Moynihan-agreed with Panama's protest against a reservation added to the first treaty by Arizona Democrat Dennis DeConcini, which seemed to imply that the U.S. was free to intervene militarily in Panamanian affairs whenever it chose. They warned that they would vote against the treaty unless a "noninterventionist" clarification was added. But DeConcini and several allies were just as insistent that his reservation not be repudiated...
...doctrine that could weaken the West in its struggle against Communism. Floating around the U.S. last week were "open letters" signed by 250 faculty members from 40-odd U.S. colleges and universities, ranging from Harvard to Stanford, urging President Kennedy to keep hands off Cuba as a matter of noninterventionist principle...