Panama Canal Treaties: Hearings Before the Committee on Foreign Relations, United States Senate, Ninety Fifth Congress, First Session, on Executive N, 95th Cong., 1st Sess. ...U.S. Government Printing Office, 1977 - Panama |
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Admiral MOORER AFL-CIO agree agreement American areas Arnulfo Arias Article believe Brig Canal operation Canal Zone Carter Castro Chairman Colombia Commission committee Communist concerned Congress Constitution Cuba Cuban defend the Canal defense dictatorship DOZER economic EISENMANN employees established Fidel Castro going Government of Panama guarantee Hay-Pauncefote Treaty human rights interests issue Isthmus JOHN SPARKMAN Joint Chiefs Kissinger Latin America ment Miami Herald military National Guard naval negotiations neutrality treaty officers Omar Torrijos Panama Canal Treaty Panama Canal Zone Panamanian Government Panamanian National Guard Paragraph Party percent plebiscite political position present President proposed treaties protect provides question ratification regime of neutrality relations Republic of Panama ROBLES Secretary Senator BAKER Senator CLARK Senator PERCY Senator SARBANES Senator STONE ships sovereignty Soviet Union statement TAMBS territory testimony Thank tion tolls U.S. Government vessels violations Washington
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Page 145 - ... to the entire exclusion of the exercise by the Republic of Panama of any such sovereign rights, power or authority.
Page 141 - In the field of world policy I would dedicate this Nation to the policy of the good neighbor, the neighbor who resolutely respects himself and, because he does so, respects the rights of others — the neighbor who respects his obligations and respects the sanctity of his agreements in and with a world of neighbors.
Page 224 - This great nation will endure as it has endured, will revive and will prosper. So first of all let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself — nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.
Page 618 - An Act to provide for the construction of a canal connecting the waters of the Atlantic and Pacific oceans...
Page 575 - Sea three marine miles from mean low water mark and extending to and across the Isthmus of Panama into the Pacific ocean to a distance of three marine miles from mean low water mark with the proviso that the cities of Panama and Colon and the harbors adjacent to said cities, which are included within the boundaries of the zone above described, shall not be included within this grant.
Page 575 - The Republic of Panama further grants in like manner to the United States in perpetuity all islands within the limits of the zone above described and in addition thereto the group of small islands in the Bay of Panama, named Perico, Naos, Culebra and Flamenco.
Page 495 - If a new peremptory norm of general international law emerges, any existing treaty which is in conflict with that norm becomes void and terminates.
Page 545 - Mr. Chairman and members of the Committee, it is a distinct pleasure for me to appear before you today to discuss our current active military manpower situation.
Page 345 - As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy. Whatever differs from this, to the extent of the difference, is no democracy.
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