This purpose is accomplished in the main by the simple expedient of drawing upon the ... the construction of the canal and for the expense of administration in the zone to an amount not exceeding ...

The military is drawing up options ... where discussions on increasing U.S. troop presence in the canal zone will take place. The cabinet secretary is fully on board with Trump’s desire to ...

and for decades afterward in the U.S.-administered Panama Canal Zone, a stretch of land 5 miles on either side of the 50-mile canal governed as sovereign U.S. territory. “Gold dollars for the ...

Since taking office in January, the president has vowed to reclaim the Panama Canal, which is currently operated by Panama, as part of his effort to improve foreign relations in what he believes ...

The social and racial divide along the Panama Canal Zone in its American heyday was stark: a silver and gold, segregated system of pay — and life. “Separate schools, clubhouses, commissaries ...

It's true there are no uniformed People's Liberation Army soldiers now stationed in the Canal Zone. That's not the end of the story, however. Almost certainly there are Chinese operatives and ...

To keep the sheer face of Contractor’s Hill from sliding into the vital Gaillard Cut (TIME, May 10) and blocking the Panama Canal, the Canal Co. called for emergency bidding on a contract for ...

Those tensions reached a peak on January 9, 1964, when anti-American riots led to several deaths in the Canal Zone and the brief severing of diplomatic relations between the two countries.

It was a territory known to some who lived there as a tropical utopia. The Canal Zone in Panama had been under U.S. control for nearly 75 years. But in 1977, President Jimmy Carter signed treaties ...