Word: referendum
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...million into the de velopment of vast underground phos phate reserves - the world's largest -and spending another $9,000,000 a year to put up schools, dig water wells for tribesmen and persuade the suspicious Saharans that the Spanish are really on their side. In a recent referendum, 14,000 out of 16,000 persons voted to continue the Spanish Sahara's present territorial status...
...vote was 830 for the referendum and 323 against...
...referendum asked for "an early resolution of our military involvement," without "further escalation or widening...
Voters in Lincoln, Mass. have passed by more than a two to one majority a referendum urging President Johnson to change his Vietnam policy...
...happening in Virginia is enough to unstatus the quo from Accomac to Yorktown. Not only did the assembly approve a record two-year budget of $3.13 billion, up 27.5% from 1966-68; it also gave Godwin authority to borrow $81 million of it. If voters approve in a November referendum, Virginia for the first time this century will float a general obligation-bond issue, a routine fiscal expedient long employed by all but a scattering of states...