Senate Debate on the Panama Canal Treaties: A Compendium of Major Statements, Documents, Record Votes, and Relevant Events |
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Is the Panama Canal and the buffer zone which surrounds it important to the United States ? Is U.S. ownership — which our country has had for more than 70 years — important ? Are the defense and economic interests of the United States ...
Is the Panama Canal and the buffer zone which surrounds it important to the United States ? Is U.S. ownership — which our country has had for more than 70 years — important ? Are the defense and economic interests of the United States ...
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Moreover , this quick - transfer capability was of critical importance to the United States in the more recent past . ... The canal was also important during the Vietnam conflict with over 33 percent of the supplies for our forces ...
Moreover , this quick - transfer capability was of critical importance to the United States in the more recent past . ... The canal was also important during the Vietnam conflict with over 33 percent of the supplies for our forces ...
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It included an important part of their waterpower resource . I would like to remind Senators that students of American history will note that our new Government's power to levy tariffs was the key to financing our new Nation in 1789.
It included an important part of their waterpower resource . I would like to remind Senators that students of American history will note that our new Government's power to levy tariffs was the key to financing our new Nation in 1789.
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Contents
REPRESENTATIVE STATEMENTS ON THE MAJOR THEMES | 17 |
Laxalt March 1 1978 | 218 |
SUMMARY TEXT AND VOTE FOR ALL PROPOSED AMEND | 343 |
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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 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 14 Nov 2017 |
| Length | 560 pages |
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