Senate Debate on the Panama Canal Treaties: A Compendium of Major Statements, Documents, Record Votes, and Relevant Events |
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... concerned about the sovereignty dilemma as some others . I am not hung up on whether the canal is sovereign territory or not , or whether we own it in a technical legal sense . I am more concerned about what happens after the year 2000 ...
... concerned about the sovereignty dilemma as some others . I am not hung up on whether the canal is sovereign territory or not , or whether we own it in a technical legal sense . I am more concerned about what happens after the year 2000 ...
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... concerned with the potential for disagreement between our countries that will arise because of the vaguely worded ... concern is that these treaties are an unnecessary gamble with our national security interests . I have heard all our ...
... concerned with the potential for disagreement between our countries that will arise because of the vaguely worded ... concern is that these treaties are an unnecessary gamble with our national security interests . I have heard all our ...
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... concerned . I want to make the Americans concerned . We have just spent 10 days of debate , and we are debating the wrong thing . What we should be debating is how we are going to remove this barrier , this growing barrier , that is ...
... concerned . I want to make the Americans concerned . We have just spent 10 days of debate , and we are debating the wrong thing . What we should be debating is how we are going to remove this barrier , this growing barrier , that is ...
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REPRESENTATIVE STATEMENTS ON THE MAJOR THEMES | 17 |
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1 Senator Edmund Muskie February 28 1978_ | 206 |
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