Nguyen Van Ba

Court of Claims jurisdiction; Suits in Admiralty Act.— On January 25, 1980 the court entered the following order:

Before Friedman, Chief Judge, Kunzig and Smith, Judges.

*592This case is before the court on defendant’s unopposed motion to dismiss. Plaintiff is the owner of a South Vietnamese shipping company that entered into a charter contract with a representative of the South Vietnamese government. It is argued by plaintiff that this contract was not truly an agreement between the South Vietnamese government and plaintiff, but rather it was in fact a contract between the United States and the…