The World - News from Aug. 13, 1987

Nicaragua told the World Court in The Hague that it is dropping its case against Costa Rica, in which the Sandinista government accused its Central American neighbor of tolerating U.S.-backed contra operations on its territory. Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega had said his government would drop the case in the wake of last week’s five-nation peace plan for Central America. The court--the judicial branch of the United Nations, officially called the International Court of Justice--is empowered to drop the case from its docket only if Costa Rica agrees.