Senate Debate on the Panama Canal Treaties: A Compendium of Major Statements, Documents, Record Votes, and Relevant Events |
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The Future During the course of the debate , we have all been asked to speculate about the future . I believe that after the extensive hearings before the Foreign Relations Committee and the investigations of the Armed Services and ...
The Future During the course of the debate , we have all been asked to speculate about the future . I believe that after the extensive hearings before the Foreign Relations Committee and the investigations of the Armed Services and ...
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I think he said any unpaid $ 10 million contingency payment would be a debt against the Commission . That is not what the treaty says . The treaty says : The unpaid balance shall be from operating surpluses in future years .
I think he said any unpaid $ 10 million contingency payment would be a debt against the Commission . That is not what the treaty says . The treaty says : The unpaid balance shall be from operating surpluses in future years .
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So , looking to the future , these treaties - and I give the Senator from Alaska great credit for this , because he was one who was not looking to the past - a favorite occupation in this Chamber - but rather to the future .
So , looking to the future , these treaties - and I give the Senator from Alaska great credit for this , because he was one who was not looking to the past - a favorite occupation in this Chamber - but rather to the future .
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1 Senator Edmund Muskie February 28 1978 | 206 |
Laxalt March 1 1978 | 218 |
177 | 272 |
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| Title | Senate Debate on the Panama Canal Treaties: A Compendium of Major Statements, Documents, Record Votes, and Relevant Events U.S. and Panama and their canal : the diplomatic and legal record |
| Author | Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service |
| Contributor | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations |
| Publisher | U.S. Government Printing Office, 1979 |
| Length | 560 pages |
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