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...ornate chamber of the International Court of Justice in the Hague last week, lawyers for Nicaragua charged the U.S. with attempting to overthrow the Sandinista government, using the contra rebels as one of its tools. The lawyers made their case in the World Court before an empty row of leather chairs reserved for the American side. The U.S. is boycotting the proceeding: last year the Reagan Administration announced that while it would continue to recognize the court's jurisdiction generally, it would not do so for two years in matters involving events in Central America...
Chayes was sharply critical of the U.S. decision to ignore the World Court trial. "They accuse Nicaragua of propaganda [in filing the case], but while we were arguing legality in a court of law, they released a 150-page brief [to the press, defending U.S. claims of Nicaraguan support for the El Salvador rebels]. It was the U.S. that was trying its case in the newspapers...
...team, comprised of another U.S lawyer, together with the Nicaraguan ambassador to the Netherlands and an attorney each from England, France and Nicaragua presented five witnesses and an affidavit from Edgar Chamorro, a former contra leader...
Chayes returned this week from The Hague, Netherlands, where he and five others completed arguing the case that U.S support for the rebel contras in Nicaragua violates international law. The U.S. boycotted the proceedings, whose verdict should arrive in several months...
Perhaps the most damning evidence, Chayes said in a recent interview, was given by David MacMichael, the former CIA agent whose job it was to monitor the flow of arms from Nicaragua to the El Salvador rebels between...