Word: transit
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Landsmark said the governor is making an effort to use transit expenditures and private investment in ways that will foster community development...
...United States in the internal affairs of Panama." On the other hand, the statement also appeared to deal squarely with the Senate's principal concerns. It said flatly that both the U.S. and Panama would "defend the canal against any threat" to its neutrality or to "the peaceful transit of vessels through the canal." In addition, the statement affirmed that U.S. and Panamanian warships not only would use the canal "with expedited treatment" at all times but would also be allowed to "go to the head of the line" of vessels awaiting passage in cases of "need or emergency...
...storm by disclosing a confidential State Department cable quoting a Panamanian diplomat as saying that Panama could not "agree to the right of the U.S. to intervene" militarily after 1999. What's more, the diplomat vowed, U.S. warships could not "go to the head of the line" to transit the canal in case of an emergency. The cable, from the U.S. embassy in Panama to the State Department, predicted "increasing irritation" over differing interpretations of the wording of the treaty, which guarantees American warships the right "to transit the canal expeditiously" after 1999. To dampen senatorial wrath, the State...
Peter N. Stowell, director of the Urban Mass Transit Authority said yesterday that city, state and federal agencies "have been working on the planning stages of the project for up to three years," adding that the planning phase had cost over $6 million...
Stowell said public hearings, environmental impact studies, and usage surveys contributed to a comprehensive "transit system management" plan...