Panama Canal, 1971, Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Inter-American Affairs ... 92-1, on H. Res. 74, 154, 156, and Other Resolutions, Sept. 22 and 23, 19711971 - Government publications - 173 pages |
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... recent sea level studies and now of the Office of Interoceanic Canal Negotiations in the Department of State , made the following revealing statements before a gathering of marine scientists on March 4 , 1971 , at the Smithsonian ...
... recent sea level studies and now of the Office of Interoceanic Canal Negotiations in the Department of State , made the following revealing statements before a gathering of marine scientists on March 4 , 1971 , at the Smithsonian ...
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... recent years of our policies at Panama . It must be borne in mind that those who made these threats overthrew by force and violence the Constitutional Government of Panama and are maintaining themselves in power by the same means . Why ...
... recent years of our policies at Panama . It must be borne in mind that those who made these threats overthrew by force and violence the Constitutional Government of Panama and are maintaining themselves in power by the same means . Why ...
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... recent years , particu- larly in Latin America . It will open the way for the next great step by the Con- gress in the evolution of our Isthmian Canal policy - the major modernization of the existing Panama Canal . These two steps ...
... recent years , particu- larly in Latin America . It will open the way for the next great step by the Con- gress in the evolution of our Isthmian Canal policy - the major modernization of the existing Panama Canal . These two steps ...
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... recent efforts to wrest its control from the United States trace back to the 1917 Communist Revolution and conform to long range Soviet policy of gaining domination over key water routes as in Cuba , which flanks the Atlantic approach ...
... recent efforts to wrest its control from the United States trace back to the 1917 Communist Revolution and conform to long range Soviet policy of gaining domination over key water routes as in Cuba , which flanks the Atlantic approach ...
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... recent years , Re- visions were made in 1936 and 1955. But the most objectionable feature from Panama's viewpoint - US sovereignty over the Canal Zone in perpetuity - re- mained unchanged . Neither did the increases in payments and ...
... recent years , Re- visions were made in 1936 and 1955. But the most objectionable feature from Panama's viewpoint - US sovereignty over the Canal Zone in perpetuity - re- mained unchanged . Neither did the increases in payments and ...
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Page 55 - States would possess and exercise if it were the sovereign of the territory within which said lands and waters are located to the entire exclusion of the exercise by the Republic of Panama of any such sovereign rights, power or authority.
Page 42 - I am taking the liberty of sending a copy of this letter to the other members of your committee.
Page 89 - Panama agrees to cancel or modify such treaty in due form, for which purpose it shall give to the said third power the requisite notification within the term of four months from the date of the present convention, and in case the existing treaty contains no clause permitting its...
Page 89 - The same right and authority are granted to the United States for the maintenance of public order in the cities of Panama and Colon and the territories and harbors adjacent thereto in case the Republic of Panama should not be, in the judgment of the United States, able to maintain such order.
Page 95 - And whereas the said Convention has been duly ratified on both parts, and the ratifications of the two governments were exchanged in the City of Washington, on the...
Page 4 - Executive order that all land and land under water within the limits of the Canal Zone is necessary for the construction, maintenance, operation, sanitation, or protection of the Panama Canal, and to extinguish, by agreement when advisable, all claims and titles of adverse claimants and occupants.
Page 52 - II which the United States would possess and exercise if it were the sovereign of the territory within which said lands and waters are located to the entire exclusion of the exercise by the Republic of Panama of any such sovereign rights...
Page 89 - Panama shall nominate two persons and they shall proceed to a decision; but in case of disagreement of the Commission (by reason of their being equally divided in conclusion), an umpire shall be appointed by the two Governments who shall render the decision.
Page 99 - The Republic of Panama grants to the United States in perpetuity a monopoly for the construction, maintenance and operation of any system of communication by means of canal or railroad across its territory between the Caribbean Sea and the Pacific Ocean.
Page 89 - VII. That to enable the United States to maintain the independence of Cuba, and to protect the people thereof, as well as for its own defense, the government of Cuba will sell or lease to the United States lands necessary for coaling or naval stations at certain specified points to be agreed upon with the President of the United States. VIII. That by way of further assurance the government of Cuba will embody the foregoing provisions in a permanent treaty with the United States.