Since it was formed as the judicial arm of the fledgling United Nations 40 years ago, the World Court, formally known as the International Court of Justice, has received staunch support from the U.S. But when the 15-judge panel in the Hague agreed last November to hear charges from Nicaragua that the Reagan Administration was directing and supplying the anti-Sandinista contra rebels, the U.S. insisted that such conflicts were beyond the court's authority. Last week, as the judges were deliberating over the Sandinista case without U.S. participation, Washington's complaints about "political abuse" of the ICJ came to a head. The Reagan...
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