Panama Canal Treaties: Hearings Before the Committee on Foreign Relations, United States Senate, Ninety Fifth Congress, First Session, on Executive N, 95th Cong., 1st Sess. ...U.S. Government Printing Office, 1977 - Panama |
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... clause that permits United States troops to remain here until the year 2000 . While the nationalists protests may be influencing a small number of educated Panamanians , the majority of voters here are aware only of the economic and ...
... clause that permits United States troops to remain here until the year 2000 . While the nationalists protests may be influencing a small number of educated Panamanians , the majority of voters here are aware only of the economic and ...
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... clause of inflationary correction so that the annuity consistently maintains its purchasing value , based on the year 1977. The income for the first year is estimated to be $ 65 million . By the end of the treaty , the amount will reach ...
... clause of inflationary correction so that the annuity consistently maintains its purchasing value , based on the year 1977. The income for the first year is estimated to be $ 65 million . By the end of the treaty , the amount will reach ...
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... clause we now have and the present Canal Zone is better than this . That is something they will have to prove to us and our people . They will have to prove that the $ 2 million we now get is economically better for all the coming years ...
... clause we now have and the present Canal Zone is better than this . That is something they will have to prove to us and our people . They will have to prove that the $ 2 million we now get is economically better for all the coming years ...
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... clause which commits Panama to building a sea - level canal in conjunction with the United States . This agreement on principles merely provides for the possibility of a joint study with the United States of the feasibility of building ...
... clause which commits Panama to building a sea - level canal in conjunction with the United States . This agreement on principles merely provides for the possibility of a joint study with the United States of the feasibility of building ...
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... clause and guarantees full sovereignty and jurisdiction over national territory , they support the country's ... clauses . Today we are faced with a treaty which includes about 25 labor clauses and none are unfavorable to ...
... clause and guarantees full sovereignty and jurisdiction over national territory , they support the country's ... clauses . Today we are faced with a treaty which includes about 25 labor clauses and none are unfavorable to ...
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Page 50 - The Republic of Panama grants to the United States in perpetuity the use, occupation and control of a zone of land and land under water for the construction, maintenance, operation, sanitation and protection...
Page 261 - The Republic of Panama further grants to the United States in perpetuity the use, occupation and control...
Page 399 - 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 363 - It is agreed that the canal may be constructed under the auspices of the Government of the United States, either directly at its own cost, or by gift or loan of money to individuals or Corporations, or through subscription to or purchase of stock or shares, and that, subject to the provisions of the present...
Page 295 - It would not be contended that it extends so far as to authorize what the Constitution forbids, or a change in the character of the government or in that of one of the States, or a cession of any portion of the territory of the latter, without its consent.
Page 364 - Treaty shall be ratified by the President of the United States, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate thereof , and by His Britannic Majesty; and the ratifications shall be exchanged at Washington or at London at the earliest possible time within six months from the date hereof.
Page 295 - The treaty power, as expressed in the Constitution, is in terms unlimited except by those restraints which are found in that instrument against the action of the government or of its departments, and those arising from the nature of the government itself and of that of the States.
Page 256 - Canal and its auxiliary works, with their respective families, and all such persons shall be free and exempt from the military service of the Republic of Panama.
Page 255 - The Republic of Panama agrees that there shall not be imposed any taxes, national, municipal, departmental, or of any other class, upon the Canal, the railways and auxiliary works, tugs and other vessels employed in the service of the Canal...
Page 388 - ... than in the city of Washington, shall be allowed and paid on the presentation of itemized vouchers therefor approved by the chairman of the Commission.