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After 18 months of negotiations with Panama over the future of the canal, President Johnson last week had significant progress to report. The U.S., said the President, will abrogate the old 1903 treaty which gives it sovereign control "in perpetuity" over the canal and a five-mile strip along either side. The new treaty, explained the President, will "effectively recognize Panama's sovereignty over the area of the canal." In fact, when the treaty is signed, probably next year, it will wipe out the old concept of the Canal Zone as a U.S. bastion in Latin America...
...head of the world's newest sovereign power, Singapore's Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew last week dispatched his foreign minister, Sinnathamby Rajaratnam, on the nonaligned nations' diplomatic equivalent of the American Express Co.'s basic budget tour: the United Nations (to plead for admission), London, Moscow, and a modest selection of Eastern European and Afro-Asian capitals...
...Some 4,000 claims - totaling well over $1 billion - are pending against Cuba. They have been filed mostly by big rubber, oil and sugar companies whose assets were grabbed by Castro. Their chances of collection? Under present conditions, exactly zero. The firms are blocked by the hoary doctrine of "sovereign immunity...
...claim against Cuba for unpaid shipping charges, and won uncontested judgments in both. When defectors sailed a Cuban freighter into Norfolk harbor in 1961, Mayan was ready, attached the ship and its cargo of sugar bound for Russia. But the Czech embassy, caretaker for Castro in Washington, invoked sovereign immunity. The State Department assented, and the attachment was thrown out. (Backing up the doctrine was an informal agreement between the U.S. and Cuba to return "hijacked" property; the day before the defection, Castro's officials had returned an Eastern Airlines Electra that had been hijacked at gunpoint from Miami...
Chance for Defense. Father Conklin went to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, which last February broke precedent by holding that Judge Jameson had jurisdiction. However sovereign Indian tribes may be in theory, ruled this court, tribal courts are obviously "in part" arms of the Federal Government and are thus apparently bound by minimal standards of constitutional fairness...