A judge who was accused of pro-American...

A judge who was accused of pro-American bias on a panel settling financial claims from the Iranian revolution has submitted his resignation. Swedish Judge Nils Mangard, one of three neutral-country judges on the U.S.-Iran tribunal in The Hague, told a reporter that he was stepping down for family reasons. Mangard, 69, was assaulted last September by two Iranian judges who charged that he favored Western interests in arbitrating financial awards. The tribunal, which also has three American and three Iranian judges, has decided about $300 million worth of claims out of a total of about $3.5 billion.