The Nation - News from Jan. 8, 1988

A federal appeals court allowed a Zimbabwean boy, allegedly brutalized by his diplomat father, to remain at a New York foster home but held off issuing a final opinion in the case. A three-judge panel of the U.S. 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals said a stay barring the State Department from getting custody of Terrence Karamba, 9, would expire at noon Saturday. Social services officials claim the boy was repeatedly beaten by his father, Floyd Karamba, a U.N. attache who was expelled from the United States. U.S. officials maintain that diplomatic custom requires that the boy be returned to Zimbabwe.