Word: referendum
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Another Council committee, the one appointed last week to study the charges of alleged ballot-box stuffing in the recent NSA referendum, asked the Council to extend the date of its report until next week's meeting. Paul E. Freehling '59, one of the members of the three-man committee, explained that the postponement would aid the committee in arriving at a unanimous decision. He said the members of the committee are divided at present on their opinions as to the validity of the charges and additional time was needed to conduct a more thorough investigation...
...rejoiced that "the door to negotiations is open." L'Express, liveliest of De Gaulle's journalistic critics, reversed itself spectacularly: "Everyone, or almost everyone, is now 'Gaullist,' and there is reason to be. A plebiscite this week would surely exceed the 80% [of the recent referendum]: at this moment, the man De Gaulle is, in himself, the nation . . . One is now Gaullist in the same way that one is French." Tunisia's President Bourguiba declared that "the words proclaimed by De Gaulle have never before been said. On the political level, they are something...
...miles from London, Strongman Sarit decided it was time to reassert himself. He flew back to Bangkok last week. Next day he dissolved the National Assembly, deposed the Premier, banned all political parties, scrapped the constitution and promised to draw up another (which will not be submitted to a referendum), padlocked a dozen publications, and declared martial law because of "pressure of internal and external forces, especially of the Communists." In the name of the "revolutionary party," Sarit promised Thailanders that he would 1) respect the power and independence of the courts, 2) adhere to all of Thailand...
Commenting on the referendum, Miss Papps stated that "we do not feel the vote was decisively against the News, but only against SGA support." She referred to arguments that subscribers would be paying, in effect, two times for the paper--once to the News and once through their Student Government dues, whereas non-subscribers would be paying for a paper they might never...
...lost by a smaller margin than in the referendum last fall against compulsory subscriptions," she added. Although the figures were never made public, Miss Papps said they had lost that election by over 100 votes. The more recent vote was against the News by only 50 votes. Miss Papps also stated that certain sections of Radcliffe were strongly pro-News in the recent referendum, nothing that the comuters voted unanimously for it and Cabot Hall 3 to 1 in favor of the SGA referendum...