...The Panama Canal Zone () was a 553 square mile (1,432 km2) territory inside of Panama, consisting of the Panama Canal and an area generally extending 5 miles (8.1 km) on each side of the centerline, but excluding Panama City and Colón, which otherwise would have fallen in part within the limits of the Canal Zone. Its border spanned two of Panama's provinces and was created on November 18, 1903 with the signing of the Hay-Bunau Varilla Treaty. When reservoirs were created to assure a steady supply of water for the locks, those lakes were included within the Zone. Read full entry
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- Panama Canal Zone. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Jump to: navigation, search ... The head of the company was also the Governor of the Panama Canal Zone. ...
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If McCain was born in 1936 and until 1953, doesn't that mean
that McCain was not BORN a
citizen but later legislation
made it possible to be a
citizen?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P
anama_Canal_Zone
Ok folks...the children born
on military bases law did not
happen until 1937. So we shall
retire that argument.
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Title 8 law (It was
retroactive) :
(a) Any person born in the
Canal Zone on or after
February 26, 1904, and whether
before or after the effective
date of this chapter, whose
father or mother or both at
the time of the birth of such
person was or is a citizen of
the United States, is declared
to be a citizen of the United
States.
(b) Any person born in the
Republic of Panama on or after
February 26, 1904, and whether
before or after the effective
date of this chapter, whose
father or mother or both at
the time of the birth of such
person was or is a citizen of
the United States employed by
the Government of the United
States or by the Panama
Railroad Company, or its
successor in title, is
declared to be a citizen of
the United States.
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I have heard Chinese troops It's 'pose to be 15,000 and
that's a ton to guard it and
why would Panama not do it
themselves?
Great answers and thanks. Did
not know they would be
building another one. Funny
about the kilos.
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After the US ceded the canal, the operation and maintenance contract went to China. They are also going to construct a 3rd canal that will handle the super tankers as well as US aircraft carriers in the Nimitz class and beyond. Though the US may never send such vessels through in order to make positions unknown. Rememver too that the Chinese use many of these troops for operations and maintenance. 15,000 really isn't so many. The concern though might be if you knew of the number of tanks, planes, artillery and rockets. Numbers of men are nothing. It is the weapons that count. |
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Was it stupid for former I have also heard there are
15,000 Chinese troops there,
if true way? Also the zone
seemed like a great place to
control a lot of immigration.
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There was no way to control immigration from there, its not even on our border. We only had a 99 year lease there, our lease was up and not too surprisingly Panama wanted its land back. I haven't heard anything reliable about Chinese troops there. |
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