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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... tion . If the Senate were to ratify a treaty in the face of such threats , it would show the world a new policy alien to our national character and our history and which would invite further exploitation . While I will leave to others ...
... tion . If the Senate were to ratify a treaty in the face of such threats , it would show the world a new policy alien to our national character and our history and which would invite further exploitation . While I will leave to others ...
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... tion to you and the nation to offer our combined judgment on the strategic value of the Panama Canal to the United States . Contrary to what we read about the declining strategic and economic value of the Canal , the truth is that this ...
... tion to you and the nation to offer our combined judgment on the strategic value of the Panama Canal to the United States . Contrary to what we read about the declining strategic and economic value of the Canal , the truth is that this ...
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... tion . Led by General Torrijos , for the first time in our history a Panamanian gov- ernment , far from evading , opposing or attacking the Panamanian people in re- sponse to their claims of sovereignty and jurisdiction , has done ...
... tion . Led by General Torrijos , for the first time in our history a Panamanian gov- ernment , far from evading , opposing or attacking the Panamanian people in re- sponse to their claims of sovereignty and jurisdiction , has done ...
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... tion and of distribution of the benefits of that growth to all the people throughout the national territory . In this respect I honestly and firmly believe - and I do not believe I am using superlatives - that Panama , with the united ...
... tion and of distribution of the benefits of that growth to all the people throughout the national territory . In this respect I honestly and firmly believe - and I do not believe I am using superlatives - that Panama , with the united ...
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... tion of this treaty , both countries promise to study jointly the viability of such a canal . In the event that the need for such a canal is viewed favorably , they will negotiate its construction in the terms agreed on by both ...
... tion of this treaty , both countries promise to study jointly the viability of such a canal . In the event that the need for such a canal is viewed favorably , they will negotiate its construction in the terms agreed on by both ...
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administration agree agreement amendment American Article authority Canal Zone Chairman clause Colombia Colón committee Communist concerned Cong Congress Congressional Constitution construction cost Court Cuba defend the canal defense Department economic effect environmental executive exercise fact force foreign give going grant Hay-Pauncefote Treaty human rights important Indian interest interoceanic issue Isthmus Isthmus of Panama jurisdiction land Latin America legislation level canal major matter ment military million negotiations neutrality Nicaragua operation Panama Canal Treaty Panama Canal Zone Panama City Panamanian Government percent political present President Carter problem proposed treaty protect provisions question ratified Republic of Panama sea-level canal Secretary Senator ALLEN Senator CHURCH Senator DOLE Senator SARBANES Senator THURMOND ships sovereign rights Soviet Suez Canal surrender territory threats tion Torrijos transfer transit U.S. citizens U.S. Congress U.S. Senate United vessels
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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.