Word: referendum
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...decision handed down last week by Massachusetts' highest court is casting a shadow over the referendum for rent control in Cambridge, which was slated to be on the City's November 4 ballot...
...rent control proposal, which would freeze rents in Cambridge at January, 1968, levels, was advanced last Fall by the Cambridge Rent Control Referendum, an off-shoot of the radical Peace and Freedom Party...
...constitution, Park must first win the approval of the National Assembly, in which his party has eight seats fewer than necessary for the two-thirds vote required. Furious bargaining is now under way with opposition members who might be induced to switch. The next step will be a national referendum on the proposed amendment. In a televised speech, Park declared that he regarded the referendum as "a vote of confidence. If the proposal is defeated, I and the government will immediately step down." He enjoys enough popularity among both people and army to make such an outcome seem unlikely. Korea...
...rent control referendum was initiated last Fall by the radical Peace and Freedom Party...
Although still strongly backed by Peace and Freedom, the rent referendum organization is now at least overtly separate from the party...