Word: nicaragua
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Claiming that the court has been misused by Nicaragua and other Communist nations, the Reagan administration early this week ended a 39-year-old policy of abiding by International Court of Justice decisions...
...move followed a U.S. decision to boycott court proceedings regarding charges that the U.S. was aiding guerillas trying to overthrow Nicaragua's leftist government...
Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law Abram Chayes '43, who prosecuted the U.S. on behalf of Nicaragua at The Hague, said yesterday that it is a very sad day for the U.S., considering our position as a country that abides by international...
Last May, 3000 people, including about 40 Harvard students, marched in front of the John F. Kennedy federal office building to protest the Reagan Administration's declaration of a trade embargo against Nicaragua. Police arrested 589 of the demonstrators, including more than 10 Harvard students, said Gawain Kripke '88 of Adams House, who participated in the protest...
...rare for them to do so in an international dispute in which the U.S. is the defendant. "One does not become involved in a suit against one's own country lightly," says Reichler. "If my situation is unique, so are the circumstances in this case." American policy toward Nicaragua, he maintains, "is a violation of the most sacred principles that the U.S. stands for: respect for law and the peaceful resolution of disputes...