Word: referendum
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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ITHACA, N.Y., April 12--Student opposition to compulsory ROTC at Cornell will reach its climax on April 20, when the entire student body votes in a special referendum on whether or not ROTC training should be mandatory...
...Rival. Only a month ago, Norodom called a public referendum and got an overwhelming endorsement of his rule. His ministers, however, are considerably less popular. The King's domestic opposition, the left-wing Democratic Party of Jungle Exile Son Ngoc Thanh (TIME, Feb. 21). complained to the neutral Truce Commission recently that King Norodom was about to violate the Geneva agreements. King Norodom had a project afoot to disfranchise Viet Minh Communists in next April's general elections, despite Geneva's insistence that everyone gets a vote. The commission's Indians, Canadians, and Polish Communists backed...
...Thanh, who is holed up in the jungle. Thanh's People's Movement Party stands to do well against the royalist Union Party in the general elections scheduled for next April, and Norodom was anxious to steal a march on him. The King called a sudden, nationwide referendum. Question put by monarch to people: "Have I kept my promise to give you total independence?" The Cambodian response was overwhelming...
...Negro before, and the members split into two sharply divided groups over his application (TIME. Jan. 31). But Lautier's backers confidently expected the members to go along with the national trend toward desegregation and end their color bar. On the eve of the club's referendum vote. Lautier wrote a column for Washington's Negro semiweekly Afro-American, personally attacking two members of the club, George Durno of International News Service and Jerry Greene of the New York Daily News, for opposing his admission. After the column, many a middle-of-the-roader in the fight...
...provisions designed to handicap the Communists, e.g., eliminating the chance of Communists getting interim Cabinet posts after a government falls. La Réformette has been kicking around Parliament for four years and was not Mendès' baby, but he demanded that the Assembly avoid a national referendum on the issue by giving it a three-fifths vote. The Assembly obliged...