S. HRG. 98-452

THE PANAMA CANAL TREATY CONSTITUTIONAL
AND LEGAL ASPECTS OF THE RATIFICATION
PROCESS

HEARING

BEFORE THE

SUBCOMMITTEE ON SEPARATION OF POWERS

OF THE

COMMITTEE ON THE JUDICIARY
UNITED STATES SENATE

NINETY-EIGHTH CONGRESS

FIRST SESSION

ON

THE PANAMA CANAL TREÁTY-CONSTITUTIONAL AND LEGAL ASPECTS
OF THE RATIFICATION PROCESS

25-309 O

JUNE 23, 1983

Serial No. J-98-47

Printed for the use of the Committee on the Judiciary

U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE

WASHINGTON: 1984

CONTENTS

East, Senator John P..

Laxalt, Senator Paul

OPENING STATEMENTS

CHRONOLOGICAL LIST OF WITNESSES

Breecher, Charles H., former Director, Office of Programing, Planning and

Budget, Securities Assistance Bureau, Agency for International Develop-

ment; Robert E. Dalton, Assistant Legal Adviser for Treaty Affairs, Office

of the Legal Adviser, U.S. Department of State; Herbert W. Dodge, former

Special Assistant to the Director of Personnel, Agency for International

Development; and Phillip Harman, chairman, Committee for Better

Panama and U.S. Relations

ALPHABETICAL LIST AND SUBMITTED MATERIAL

Breecher, Charles H.:

Testimony

Letter, to Senator William V. Roth, May 12, 1978, from Douglas J.

Bennet, Jr., Assistant Secretary for Congressional Relations

Page

1

2

4

4

7

Prepared statement

11

Deposition, with attachments, before Subcommittee on Separation of

Powers of Committee on the Judiciary, March 17, 1983..

31

Letters:

July 12, 1983, to Senator John P. East.

July 21, 1983, from Senator John P. East.

July 25, 1983, to Senator John P. East...

Responses to questions of Senator John P. East

85

87

89

90

Letter, from Orrin G. Hatch, September 4, 1979, to Charles H. Breecher....

Dalton, Robert E.:

396

Statement of H. Miles Foy, Attorney-Adviser, Office of Legal Counsel,

Department of Justice..

Representative Carroll Hubbard, chairman, Subcommittee on

Panama Canal/Outer Continental Shelf, March 23, 1981, to Her-

bert W. Dodge.....

136

Herbert W. Dodge, March 28, 1981, to Representative Carroll Hub-

bard

137

Representative Carroll Hubbard, April 7, 1981, to Herbert W. Dodge ..

Representative Carroll Hubbard, April 7, 1981, to President Ronald

W. Reagan

Representatives Walter B. Jones, chairman, and Gene Snyder, rank-

ing minority member, May 20, 1982, Committee on Merchant

Marine and Fisheries, to Joseph Ross, American Law Division,

Library of Congress.