Word: referendum
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Radcliffe students voted 307 to 257 against Student Government Association support of the Radcliffe News in the referendum held last Thursday...
...News' financial difficulties began last spring when the student body voted to abolish compulsory subscription rates in a bi-annual referendum. Several students felt that it was undemocratic to require all undergraduates to pay for a paper only some of them wanted...
...Gaulle did not move against the committees until the referendum gave him true legitimacy and an overwhelming public mandate. Early this month, when a pair of Algerian Moslem visitors privately reported to him that the Algiers Committee of Public Safety had already chosen a list of "approved Moslem candidates'' for next month's election to the French National Assembly, he decided to act. "What imbeciles!" exploded De Gaulle. "The future of Algeria depends on these elections, and here they are circulating lists designed to sabotage all the plans." Still seething, De Gaulle fired off a peremptory directive...
Algeria. Ruefully impressed by De Gaulle's sweeping referendum victory in Algeria (TIME, Oct. 6), the rebel F.L.N. has in recent weeks repeatedly proclaimed its willingness to negotiate with France. As one index of its peaceful intentions, the F.L.N. arranged to release some of its captured French prisoners this week...
...last month's referendum on De Gaulle's new French constitution, Oopa renewed the cry of "Frenchmen into the sea!", urged Polynesians to vote for independence. The Polynesians voted, by a 2-to-1 margin, to stick with France...