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Contemporary Practice of the United States Relating to International Law

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 February 2017

Marian Nash Leich*
Affiliation:
Office of the Legal Adviser, Department of State

Extract

The material in this section is arranged according to the system employed in the annual Digest of United States Practice in International Law, published by the Department of State.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © American Society of International Law 1986

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References

1 S. Treaty Doc. No. 8, 99th Cong., 1st Sess. (1985); see also 79 AJIL 1045 (1985).

2 See United States v. Mackin, 668 F.2d 122 (2d Cir. 1981).

3 See In re Doherty by Gov’t of United Kingdom, 599 F.Supp. 270 (S.D.N.Y. 1984), and United States v. Doherty, 615 F.Supp. 755 (S.D.N.Y. 1985).

4 Done Jan. 27, 1977, ETS No. 90, reprinted in 15 ILM 1272 (1976). For a comparison of the U.S.-UK Supplementary Extradition Treaty and the European Convention, prepared in the Office of the Legal Adviser for submission to the Subcomm. on the Constitution of the Senate Comm. on the Judiciary, see Dept. of State File No. P86 0010–1678.

5 Dept. St. Bull., No. 2105, Dec. 1985, at 58–62; Dept. Of State, Current Policy No. 762, The Political Offense Exception and Terrorism (1985) (Statement prepared by Legal Adviser Abraham D. Sofaer).

1 S. Treaty Doc. No. 11, 99th Cong., 1st Sess. (3)–(5) (1985).

2 Dept. of State Staff Secretariat Doc. No. 8135635.

1 Dept. of State Files L/T. For discussion of the litigation, see 77 AJIL 144 (1983) and 78 AJIL 902 (1984). See also Kalamazoo Spice Extraction Co. v. Provisional Military Government of Socialist Ethiopia, 616 F.Supp. 660 (W.D. Mich. 1985).

Because of Ethiopian failure to take meaningful steps to provide compensation to Americans whose properties had been expropriated, the United States suspended foreign assistance in 1979, pursuant to the Hickenlooper Amendment. The United States had also begun voting in various multilateral development banks against proposed loans to Ethiopia and had denied generalized tariff preferences to Ethiopia. Brief for the United States as Amicus Curiae, Kalamazoo Spice Extraction Co. v. Provisional Military Government of Socialist Ethiopia, No. 82–1521, at 5 (6th Cir. 1984); also at Dept. of State File No. P84 0151–0761.