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University Daily Kansan
Nation/World
Friday, Sept. 13, 1985
U.S. fails to show in world court
United Press International
THE HAGUE, Netherlands — Nicaragua opened its case against the United States yesterday in the International Court of Justice but no U.S. officials were present to hear the charges that their government tried to undermine Nicaragua by "military and paramilitary" means.
military and paramilitary 'means:
"Today we face empty seats on the side of the respondent state," said Nicaragua's chief representative and ambassador to the Netherlands, Carlos Arguello.
"This is not the first time this has occurred. Just five years ago, this court and the United States government under President Carter faced the same empty chairs when Iran failed to appear before this tribunal," he said.
Nicaragua filed the complaint April 9, 1984, charging the United States with "conducting military and paramilitary activities in and against Nicaragua in violation of U.S. obligations under the charterers of
the United Nations and the Organization of American States, as well as general and customary international law."
law.
The suit was filed after revelations that the CIA directed the mining of Nicaragua's three main harbors in early 1984 to stop what it said were Nicaraguan shipments of arms to leftist guerrillas fighting El Salvador's government.
After a request from Managua, the world court ordered the United States to refrain from attacks against Nicaragua, but Washington replied it would not accept the court's jurisdiction in Central American affairs.
At least 12 vessels, including ships from Japan and the Soviet Union, were damaged by the mines in the Pacific ports of Corinto and Puerto Sandino and in the Caribbean harbor of El Bluff.
The disclosure that the CIA helped plan and direct the harbor mining led to a one-year cutoff of U.S. financing for anti-Sandinista rebels, which had
amounted to at least $80 million. However, after heavy lobbying, President Reagan signed a foreign aid bill last month granting another $27 million in "humanitarian" aid to the insurgents.
When the hearing began yesterday — with the seats reserved for U.S. lawyers empty — the world court's 15 judges heard the first witness in the case, Commander Louis Carrion, Nicaragua's national security chief and vice minister of the interior.
Carrion, who described himself as a U.S. educated expert on subversion, spoke for more than an hour, giving a history of American backing for the rebels. He said the rebels were weak and disorganized before U.S. involvement began in 1981 with a $19 million grant.
"There have been 3,886 people killed on the Nicaraguan side, the Nicaraguan government side. I make this distinction," he said, "because a good majority of the Contras are peasants recruited by force, and they also die in this war."
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