Word: referendum
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...committee finished writing the ordinance to define the functions and membership of the CDA. There will be 24 members on the CDA, 16 elected by residents and the other eight representing the universities, businesses, and charitable agencies in the model neighborhood. Subsequently, area residents will vote in a referendum whether to approve the ordinance or not. If they do, it will then go to the City Council for ratification. Hopefully, by the end of March elections will be held for the CDA's area-resident seats...
Justin M. Gray, who supervised Cambridge's application, feels that the referendum will help to increase resident interest in Model Cities. Volunteers hope to ring all 4700 doorbells in the model neighborhood to explain the program to residents and especially to disassociate it from "urban renewal"--a very dirty word in many sections of the City...
...will disclose the complete results of the poll and accompanying referendum this Wednesday. Yesterday, in conjunction with the GSA release, the Graduate Student Organizing Committee announced that 72% of graduate students voting in a referendum worded exactly like the GSA's called for the "immediate withdrawal" of American forces from Vietnam...
...next meeting, a number of council members had decided that even a referendum was too radical for them and the resolution was rescinded. Much argument and several hours later, the referendum was reinstated, but only with working that severely reduced the chances of a dovish result. Moreover, only GSA members, who constitute only 1500 of the 4500 graduate students and are probably a relatively conservative group, would be allowed to vote. Finally, the number of polling places was restricted...
Despite the council's harassment, the GSA activists have managed to squeeze out an emasculated sort of referendum. But the highjinks and obstructionism suggest that working through the council may not be worth the time and trouble...