Senate Debate on the Panama Canal Treaties: A Compendium of Major Statements, Documents, Record Votes, and Relevant Events |
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... the stationing of foreign troops in Panama ; they will give the United States the uni- lateral right to act militarily in the canal's defense ; and they will give our ships the right to go to the head of the line in an emergency .
... the stationing of foreign troops in Panama ; they will give the United States the uni- lateral right to act militarily in the canal's defense ; and they will give our ships the right to go to the head of the line in an emergency .
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We are presented , then , with treaties , which do not give the United States the right to guarantee its interests in the canal , which do not provide for an adequate defense of the canal , which do not allow the United States to ...
We are presented , then , with treaties , which do not give the United States the right to guarantee its interests in the canal , which do not provide for an adequate defense of the canal , which do not allow the United States to ...
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Provisions in these treaties give us an opportunity to control the arrangements , the terms , and the method of the construction of a sea- level canal , which could be built within the life of the pending canal treaty , that is ...
Provisions in these treaties give us an opportunity to control the arrangements , the terms , and the method of the construction of a sea- level canal , which could be built within the life of the pending canal treaty , that is ...
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Contents
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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