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On December 18, 1980, the Department of State announced that the United States Government had accepted the proposal by the Government of Israel to pay $6 million in three annual installments of $2 million each, beginning on January 15, 1981, as final settlement of U.S. claims arising out of an unprovoked attack upon the Liberty on June 8, 1967, by Israeli aircraft and motor torpedo boats in international waters in the eastern Mediterranean. The attack occurred while the ship was some 20 miles off the Sinai coast during the Six-Day War.

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.

By a note handed to the Secretary of the People's Committee (the ranking official) of the Libyan "People's Bureau" at Washington, on December 22, 1980, the Department of State signified acceptance by the United States Government of an offer of compensation from the Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya for damages and expenditures that resulted from a mob attack ("students' spontaneous demonstration") on the American Embassy at Tripoli on December 2, 1979. Without acknowledging responsibility for the attack, the Libyan Government had agreed to pay compensation in a note received in the Department on December 6, 1979. Following the attack, the United States had reduced its mission at Tripoli to two officers, whom it withdrew on May 2, 1980, when the American Embassy at Tripoli was closed.

In a note of June 10, 1980, the Turkish Embassy requested assistance from the Department of State in connection with a child custody proceeding in a Virginia State court. The court had reportedly ruled that, because there was martial law in certain Turkish provinces, Turkey was not a safe place of residence for the children. The Embassy suggested that it was not for the court to "pass judgment about conditions in Turkey about which authoritative information is not in its possession"; rather, it was "the responsibility of the executive to make a policy decision about the visit and residence of U.S. citizens in foreign countries and [to] inform the judicial and legislative bodies."

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.

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.