Panama Canal, 1971: Hearings, Ninety-second Congress, First Session ... September 22 and 23, 1971 |
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... Building , Hon . Dante B. Fascell ( chairman of the subcommittee ) presiding . Mr. FASCELL . The subcommittee will please come to order . The United States is presently negotiating a new treaty governing the control and operation of one ...
... Building , Hon . Dante B. Fascell ( chairman of the subcommittee ) presiding . Mr. FASCELL . The subcommittee will please come to order . The United States is presently negotiating a new treaty governing the control and operation of one ...
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... Building . Instead of acting promptly to arrest and punish the trespassers , our responsible authorities naively ignored the incidents as youthful pranks . Instead of pranks they were probes of our government's will power to stand up ...
... Building . Instead of acting promptly to arrest and punish the trespassers , our responsible authorities naively ignored the incidents as youthful pranks . Instead of pranks they were probes of our government's will power to stand up ...
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... building of bases there , and operating submarines off both coasts of Latin America ? Instead of surrendering the Canal Zone to Panama why not extend it to include the entire watershed of the Chagres River ? Would not the cession of ...
... building of bases there , and operating submarines off both coasts of Latin America ? Instead of surrendering the Canal Zone to Panama why not extend it to include the entire watershed of the Chagres River ? Would not the cession of ...
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... build a sea - level canal are essential to U.S. agreement to a new treaty , with the exact conditions to accompany these rights to be determined by negotiation . The U.S. is willing to provide greater economic benefits from the canal ...
... build a sea - level canal are essential to U.S. agreement to a new treaty , with the exact conditions to accompany these rights to be determined by negotiation . The U.S. is willing to provide greater economic benefits from the canal ...
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... building of bases there , operating submarines off both coasts of Latin America . Remember , the trouble we had in the middle part of World War II was German subs being watered and provisioned off the Atlantic coast there by some ...
... building of bases there , operating submarines off both coasts of Latin America . Remember , the trouble we had in the middle part of World War II was German subs being watered and provisioned off the Atlantic coast there by some ...
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agrees Arnulfo Arias Madrid Article auxiliary cede Chairman cities of Panama Colombia Colón commerce Communist concessions construction corridor Cuba DENNIS existing canal FASCELL forces Government of Panama Harmodio Arias Madrid Hay-Bunau-Varilla Treaty House of Representatives House Resolution important interests Interoceanic Canal issue Isthmus of Panama KAZEN land Latin America level canal MAILLIARD maintenance ment meters military million MORSE November 18 officers operation Pacific Ocean Panama and Colon Panama Canal Zone Panama grants Panama Railroad Company Panamanian Government perpetuity political ports present canal present treaty President question ratified REPRESENTATIVE IN CONGRESS Republic of Panama rights and jurisdiction sanitation and protection sea-level canal Senate ships sovereign rights sovereignty and jurisdiction STATEMENT strategic subcommittee Suez Canal SULLIVAN surrender territory thence tion treaty negotiations Treaty of 1903 U.S. control U.S. sovereignty United vital waterway Western Hemisphere WILLIAMS Zone to Panama
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Page 66 - 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, power or authority.
Page 132 - The Republic of Panama further grants in like manner to the United States in perpetuity all islands withm 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. ARTICLE III. The Republic of Panama grants to the United States all the rights, power and authority...
Page 151 - 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 134 - States and in case the Government of Panama is unable or fails in its duty to enforce this compliance by the cities of Panama and Colon with the sanitary ordinances of the United States the Republic of Panama grants to the United States the right and authority to enforce the same. 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...
Page 43 - I am taking the liberty of sending a copy of this letter to the other members of your committee.
Page 5 - 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 133 - ... treaty or by reason of the operations of the United States, its agents or employees, or by reason of the construction, maintenance, operation, sanitation, and protection of the said canal or of the works of sanitation and protection...
Page 138 - 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.
Page 147 - In case of an international conflagration or the existence of any threat of aggression which would endanger the security of the Republic of Panama or the neutrality or security of the Panama Canal, the Governments of the United States of America and the Republic of Panama will take such measures of prevention and defense as they may consider necessary for the protection of their common interests. Any measures, in safeguarding such interests, which it shall appear essential to one Government to take,...
Page 148 - 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...