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Thus, with a degree of opéra bouffe unusual even for Central America, began another round in what local newspapers have grandiloquently dubbed "the war of the flags." In fact, it is quite possibly the world's silliest international dispute. Nicaragua and Colombia are battling for jurisdiction over Quita Sueño and two smaller islets, Roncador and Serrana-all desolate, uninhabited specks of sand, coral and rock that vanish from sight during high tide...
...such as it is, began two months ago when the U.S., which had exercised joint control over the islets with Colombia since 1928 (mainly for navigational purposes) decided to renounce any jurisdiction over them. Nicaragua promptly challenged Colombia's right to claim the islets as its own. In response, Colombian Defense Minister Hernando Currea Cubides, accompanied by military escorts in two destroyers, showed his country's flag around Serrana. As it happens, he did so more or less as an afterthought. The Colombian ships could not find Quita Sueño, which apparently was under water...
Died. Paolo Cardinal Giobbe, 92, eldest member of the Sacred College of Cardinals who, before his promotion to the purple by Pope John XXIII in 1958, served 33 years in the papal diplomatic service as an emissary to Colombia and The Netherlands; in Rome...
...trade with the Communist world last year totaled $612 million, less than the nation's commerce with Colombia. If the events of last week are any indication, however, a new era has begun for East-West trade. The Commerce Department, urged on by President Nixon, granted the Boeing Co. a license to export $150 million worth of jet equipment to China. Representatives of dozens of U.S. firms returned from a high-level meeting in Warsaw aimed at substantially increasing U.S. trade with Eastern Europe. Then, at week's end the White House announced a blockbuster: the Soviet Union...
...Michael R. McGovern of the New York Daily News: Edward C. Norton of The Record. Hackensack, N.J.; J. Michael Ritchey of KERA-TV. Dallas, Tex.; Carl W. Sims, editor of the Bay State Banner, Boston, William Stockton of The Associated Press, Los Angeles: Luther R. West of the State, Colombia, S.C.: Edwin N. Williams of the Delta Democrat-Times, Greenville, Miss.: and Charles R. Wyrick, of Newsday...