ABSTRACT
After 10 years of on-again, off-again negotiations, beginning with the Johnson-Robles agreement of September 24, 1965, the United States and Panama have reached the "fish or cut bait" phase in efforts to rewrite the 1903 treaty cutting a 10-mile-wide swath—372 square miles run by the United States "as if sovereign" and "in perpetuity" —across the isthmus. But with agreement at hand, Congress appears to be balking.
