Word: referendum
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...retired country gentleman, a recluse in the tiny village of Colombey-les-Deux-Eglises sorting his memoirs, to be glimpsed only through a furtive telephoto lens and, most astonishing, to be heard not at all. Within twelve hours after his resignation in the wake of a referendum vote against his policies, workmen had moved his artifacts and files from the Elysee Palace. The presidential communication lines to Colombey were cut, and the other trappings of his office?except for a secretary, a bodyguard and a chauffeur, to which he was entitled along with a $35,000 pension?evaporated like...
...Gaulle and the people of France when it came down to the irrevocable out or non. It seemed inconceivable, even as the damning evidence of election-eve polls mounted, that the French would deny him another victory. Nonetheless, they did. By a margin of 53 to 47% in a referendum that De Gaulle had needlessly elevated to a test of confidence, France last week rejected its President...
...pressure, effectively ran the government and cooled the crisis. He felt then that "a current" passed between himself and the country, and quietly told friends that "I will either be the next President of France or the leader of the opposition." He campaigned hard for De Gaulle's referendum, but he never took the step that some Gaullists urged on him: to promise publicly that he would not run for the presidency if De Gaulle lost...
...Harvard Undergraduate Council has decided to withhold the results of last week's strike referendum until Tuesday in order to give certain elements of the community one more day--today--to vote...
...undergraduates and graduate students who have not yet voted in the referendum on the student strike may do so by coming to 52 Dunster St., Room 206, between 9 and 12 a.m. today...