Word: referendum
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Over half the students polled favored reduction of the U.S. war effort in Vietnam in a referendum included on the ballot. McCarthy drew 85 per cent of his support from those students, computerized results showed...
...kick-off rally for the referendum on the ordinance, Gray paid tribute to the resident committee which drafted the ordinance. "All the content came from them. If you went to Wellesley, with all those junior executives, you couldn't produce a better ordinance," he said...
...secretary of the Massachusetts Citizens Rights Association, the organization that introduced the 1958 referendum law, elaborated on their opposition: "Fluoride is, we claim, a poison when it accumulates in the body...
According to a 1958 Massachusetts law, any town that wishes to fluoridate must present the issue in a public referendum. A petition signed by 12 per cent of a town's registered voters is required to place the referendum on the ballot. Scare statements from spurious medical "authorities" have in the past defeated many fluoridation referenda in Massachusetts...
...Communists hoped to impose it on a reunified Germany, the constitution contained sections on human rights and religious freedom that were designed to allay the fears of nonCommunists. Not surprisingly, East German Party Boss Walter Ulbricht never bothered to put those provisions into practice. Last week, in the first referendum ever held in East Germany, citizens dutifully approved a new constitution that is more in line with the totalitarian nature of the regime...