Panama Canal Treaty Ramifications: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on the Panama Canal of the Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries, House of Representatives, Ninety-fifth Congress, First Session ... November 30, December 1, 1977, Part 1U.S. Government Printing Office, 1978 - Panama |
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$10 million accounting additional administration agreements Ambassador LINOWITZ American amount annual payment annuity Answer appropriations areas Article Article III assets banks budget Canal enterprise canal operating Canal revenues Canal tolls Canal traffic Canal Zone Government capital cargo Chairman charges COFINA committee Congress Cost transfer debts depreciation DOLVIN economic effect employees estimated facilities fiscal funds Governor Parfitt Hay-Bunau-Varilla Treaty Hay-Pauncefote Treaty impact increase in tolls interest Kujawa long tons ment METCALFE MODGLIN NACHMANOFF nations negotiations Neutrality Treaty Nonfund expense NONNENMACHER obligations operating revenues Panama Canal Commission Panama Canal Company Panama Canal Treaty Panamanian payments to Panama percent ports present proposed Panama Canal proposed treaties question Republic of Panama responsibility ships statement Steers subcommittee Suez Canal TANNENBAUM testimony Thank tion toll increases toll rates transiting the Canal Treaty provides U.S. Government U.S. investment U.S. military U.S. Treasury United user guarantees vessels
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Page 179 - The canal shall be free and open to the vessels of commerce and of war of all nations observing these Rules, on terms of entire equality, so that there shall be no discrimination against any such nation, or its citizens or subjects, in respect of the conditions or charges of traffic, or otherwise.
Page 186 - If, in the opinion of any of the Parties, the inviolability or the integrity of the territory or the sovereignty or political independence...
Page 186 - In the event of a conflict between the obligations of the Members of the United Nations under the present Charter and their obligations under any other international agreement, their obligations under the present Charter shall prevail.
Page 183 - When it is the intention of the State making the declaration that it should become bound according to its terms, that intention confers on the declaration the character of a legal undertaking, the State being thenceforth legally required to follow a course of conduct consistent with the declaration.
Page 186 - Should the Security Council consider that measures provided for in Article 41 would be inadequate or have proved to be inadequate, it may take such action by air, sea or land forces as may be necessary to maintain or restore international peace and security.
Page 179 - Canal shall be provided; (c) tolls and other charges for transit and ancillary services shall be just, reasonable, equitable and consistent with the principles of international law: (d) as a pre-condition of transit, vessels may be required to establish clearly the financial responsibility and guarantees for payment of reasonable and adequate indemnification, consistent with international practice and standards, for damages resulting from acts...
Page 233 - Congress, approved August twenty-fourth, nineteen hundred and twelve, to provide for the opening, maintenance, protection and operation of the Panama Canal and the sanitation and government of the Canal Zone...
Page 185 - 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 191 - The Canal, when constructed, and the entrances thereto shall be neutral in perpetuity, and shall be opened upon the terms provided for by Section I of Article three of, and in conformity with all the stipulations of, the treaty entered into by the Governments of the United States and Great Britain on November 18, 1901.
Page 186 - If the inviolability or the integrity of the territory or the sovereignty or political independence of any American State should be affected by an aggression which is not an armed attack or by an extra-continental or intra-continental conflict, or by any other fact or situation that might endanger the peace of America...