Word: referendum
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...This "referendum on the war" had occupied virtually all of CNCV's time and money since midsummer. In the last weeks some 450 to 500 canvassers urged voters throughout the City to "vote...
...that the referendum is over, CNCV is trying to turn the "yes" vote into more effective political action against the war. The committee has enough money left over from the referendum campaign to keep its office open until next spring, and is now appealing for more funds from its past contributors and workers. At the present time, CNCV is taking its first tentative steps along three different courses of action...
...method. Since its inception last spring, CNCV has had only one major activity at a time. First, it petitioned Rep. Thomas P. O'Neill Jr. (D.-Mass.) to come to Cambridge for hearings on the war; next, it held the Cambridge Peace Fair; and then it waged the long referendum battle. Now, CNCV is moving in several directions at once--an approach which creates both possibilities and potential problems...
...Cambridge's "referendum on the war" has come and gone. The organization which fostered it remains, but the coming months may provide a severe test of its staying power...
...also discussed matters pertaining to the printing of the ballot for the run-off referendum, including the color of the paper to be used...