OPINION
MILTON POLLACK, District Judge.
On September 25, 1980 in the Atlantic Ocean about 200 miles east of Cape Cod the Coast Guard boarded a coastal freighter of Panamanian registry, named the "ROONDIEP", and found 30 tons of marijuana in the cargo hold. The Coast Guard seized the ship and its cargo on behalf of and on authorization from the Government of Panama, which had authorized the boarding, (the United States had also authorized the boarding), and...
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