Word: referendum
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...England Regional Chairman of the National Student Association has issued a last minute appeal calling on Harvard students to rejoin NSA. Undergraduates will vote on the issue in a college-wide referendum tomorrow...
...balloting tomorrow (today in Dudley House) will be decisive in determining Harvard's relationship with NSA for at least a year. This referendum will be unusual in one respect: there will be room on the ballot for students to register their abstention. Conceivably, a large number of "abstentions" could undermine the position of the Council, should the vote be to rejoin...
Further, Chaalal questioned de Gaulle's good faith, and also some of the French leader's proposals for an end to Algerian hostilities: specifically, that the French people, in a referendum of their own, would have to approve any Algerian decision...
Stanley H. Hoffmann, assistant professor of Government, questioned these arguments. The best way to obtain election guarantees, he said, is for the F.L.N. leaders to go to Paris and negotiate. And, Hoffmann suggested, the proposed French referendum may serve to force the hand of the "more reactionary" National Assembly...
Balloting for the NSA referendum will take place in Dudley Monday and Tuesday, Dec. 14 and 15, and in the other Houses on the 15. The Student Council voted Oct. 26, with only one dissent, to recommend that Harvard rejoin the organization, a decision that the College must ratify before it becomes binding. In a similar referendum a year ago, the vote was 891 to 823 to withdraw...