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First , it is a fact that the U.S. Navy has less than 500 ships today as compared to nearly 1,000 ships only 10 years ago . Certainly , that is not the only way to measure a navy , nor the effectiveness of a navy .
First , it is a fact that the U.S. Navy has less than 500 ships today as compared to nearly 1,000 ships only 10 years ago . Certainly , that is not the only way to measure a navy , nor the effectiveness of a navy .
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I have a figure that there are 2,000 ships right now that cannot go through the canal — 2,000 . This is overalĩ , free world shipping . The Department of Transportation made a cursory study and found out that there was a great number of ...
I have a figure that there are 2,000 ships right now that cannot go through the canal — 2,000 . This is overalĩ , free world shipping . The Department of Transportation made a cursory study and found out that there was a great number of ...
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He conceded that 94 percent of the number of ships in the world could transit the canal . You take all the ships in the world , the 27,000 figure ; he conceded that most of them could go through the canal . The 42 - percent figure that ...
He conceded that 94 percent of the number of ships in the world could transit the canal . You take all the ships in the world , the 27,000 figure ; he conceded that most of them could go through the canal . The 42 - percent figure that ...
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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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