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...Committee by Special Counsel Leon Jaworski. But the Korean leader has turned aside repeated inquiries by U.S. diplomats about Park, often citing an unwillingness to abridge his "human rights." Rejecting the latest entreaties from Washington, Seoul's Foreign Minister Park Tong Jin observed curtly that "as a fully sovereign and law-governed nation, Korea finds no reason to turn over one of its nationals merely because he is suspected of having violated foreign law." Tongsun Park, who left London for Korea in August just as the Ethics Committee was beginning its hearings, made a similar argument. After...
...with far less than $103,253, O'Brien could be driven from his home, and the city of Boston -O'Brien's employer-could get off with a negligible payment. The reason: Massachusetts is one of twelve states still clinging to an antique doctrine of sovereign immunity, which forbids lawsuits against the government without its consent. The doctrine goes back to a medieval notion that "the king can do no wrong," and was pronounced in the U.S. as a "general proposition" by Chief Justice John Marshall in 1821. In recent terms, sovereign immunity has meant that some...
Under such pressure, city officials asked the state legislature for reform. As a result, Neville has once more delayed pressing her claim. Meanwhile, tiring of such legal imbroglios, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, in a separate but similar case, has pushed the legislature to act on the question of sovereign immunity by the end of 1978. If the legislators do not allow citizens to make "reasonable" claims against the government by then, the court threatened to abolish the doctrine on its own-and without an limit to government liability...
Negotiators have already hammered out not one but two treaties. The main document totally erases the old treaty under which the U.S. could exercise authority "as if sovereign"-a contentious phrase that provided for colonial power over the zone. Instead, Panama would gain full jurisdiction over the zone within three years. Meanwhile, the U.S. would operate the canal itself until Dec. 31, 1999-and then turn it over to Panama. Some 3,500 Americans working for the Panama Canal Co., which is entirely owned by the U.S. Government, would lose such perks as subsidized housing and bargain shopping at official...
Actually these points are sensible and have been raised by previous Administrations, mostly in private. No Middle East peace is possible without at least a start toward resettling the Palestinians, but the word "homeland" raises confusion over whether Carter means a sovereign state or a territory affiliated with Jordan. It is also obvious that no peace is possible unless Israel gives up most of the occupied territories, including the West Bank. But there are many possible ways for this to come about, and Carter's pronouncement seems both premature and imprecise...