Re: [DX-NEWS] yap - micronesia or belau(palau)?

[Htorr]

I remember reading about this in Time Magazine around the time that we gave up the Zone.  I believe Jimmy Carter was in office.  As I recall it said that a baby born in the Zone was not automatically a citizen, such as a baby born in Alabama or any other State.  I think this was done to keep Panamanians from coming into the Zone and having their babies, thus their automatically becoming U.S. Citizens.         There was this plus several other arguments on why the Canal Zone was not considered as part of the United States, which included U.S.  Postage stamps not being valid there.         Tom Orr,  W6HT  (ex-KZ5TO)     In a message dated 2/16/2005 8:02:08 A.M. Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: According to 2 friends of mine - one worked in the Zone, a second that was born in the Zone, this is not the case.  The Zone was US property and those born there were citizens.  The individual born in the Zone served with me in the Air Force.  Anyone born in the Zone of Panamanian parents has dual citizenship - that according to the State Dept Web site. Casey/KQ4YI >  >      A baby born in the U.S. (i.e. Alabama) is automatically a U.S. > citizen but a baby born in the Canal Zone was not. >