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Show 77 on the Res. of Representative matter. Flood resolution the these early in 1971. introduced 154, of reads resolutions The is H. operative portion follows: as Resolved by the House of Representatives, That is the sense of the House of Representatives, that the Government of the United States should maintain and protect its sovereign rights and jurisdiction over said Canal Zone and Panama Canal and that the united States Government in should no way forfeit, negotiate, or transfer any of these sovereign rights, jurisdiction, territory or property to any other sovereign nation or to any international or ganization which rights, sovereignty and jurisdiction are indispensably necessary for the protection and security of the entire Western Hemisphere including cede, the canal The and Panama. feeling Canal of the an obsession with Panama Center for the united that through a the Canal nation the than victory in a united a 40-year trend Canal States Zone, the for a canal outcome of Panama Viet Nam." the united of Canal . that stated "is more (12: 71) require which would a report, united among States other i to Reassert its Eisenhower, Kennedy, and Johnson. over this recommending reversal rights things, to: position both pres- States vital And the of sovereign con Zone, which has Canal trol over the Canal and the been dangerously weakened by action of Presidents (1) was study conducted revocation of United States the through Perhaps presaging the the minori ty ically called of and of position of sea-level control Studies and sovereign control and Zone losing International Strategic report written in 1967, the ervation of a is retreat" of policy minority report Georgetown University. conflicts, "a States construction of the recently expressed in by the [6:267] in of the emphat> |
