Word: referendum
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...thought it would be better to have a referendum on the war, not on Lenin's theory of imperialism," Michael L. Walzer, CNCV co-chairman and associate professor of Government remarked last week...
...will begin discussion of the plan at its meeting next Thursday. It will probably consider separately the two major parts--the creation of a student-only organization and the switch from dormitory to House representation. Miss Kucharski could not say when the final referendum would be taken
...Court contends that unless the applicability of the initiative is limited, the city will be flooded with expensive and trivial referenda. Surely, though, it is expensive to collect names and have correct papers drawn. Presumably it takes more than a burst of pique to goad anyone into organizing a referendum...
...reply has been to cite the 45-year-old case of Dooling vs. City Council of Fitchburg. The case dealt directly with the possible uses of initiative petitions. The Supreme Julicial Court ruled "It cannot have been the purpose of the General Court to require or to permit the referendum or the initiative... touching subjects wholly outside the field of authorized action by the City Council. Such a futile intention cannot be imputed to the General Court...
...Britain on the grounds that the legitimate Gibraltarians are not the present ones but the villagers in La Linea and San Roque and across the bay in Algeciras, whose ancestors fled the invading British in 1704. (The United Nations, which supports this view, also refused to accept the referendum.) To show its displeasure at Britain's insistence on keeping the rock, Spain has imposed on Gibraltar a series of annoyances, ranging from a slash in the number of Spanish men workers (from 14,500 to 6,000) who cross daily into the colony to a ban on border crossings...