Word: ballots
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...move was in the works, Suslov may have been out to save the two men from an ignominious sacking. Suslov may also have urged a postponement of the Polish Party Congress, now scheduled for July, and inveighed against plans to elect delegates to it by a democratic secret ballot...
...full-day conference--open to the general public--will offer strategy sessions and workshops aimed at organizing a grass-roots movement which could forestall the referendum item on the 1982 state ballot. Flora Haas, a journalist and an adviser to the new coalition, said this week...
...Cambridge City Council voted last night to place on the ballot for the November city elections a question reading "Shall the Cambridge City Council call upon our Representative in Congress to oppose sending U.S. troops, military advisers, arms, or military aid of any kind whatsoever to the governments of El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala...
...vote for placing the referendum on the ballot was 6-0, with three members absent, but one councilor. Alfred E. Vellucci, initially balked at the referendum idea. "They can kill a lot of people in six months," Vellucci said...
...second, more intriguing question is also posed on the ballot. It asks whether students should be given more decision-making power. The answer, emphatically, is yes. Opponents of this proposition have argued publicly that students spend only four years at this University and hence are ill-suited to make decisions that will last beyond their tenure, and that administrators are smarter, and hence should be given all authority. The second contention would seem to answer itself--administrators who can invest in apartheid, or refuse to recognize that gay students here are victims of discrimination, for example, are surely not omniscient...