Word: referendum
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Almost 1000 students signed a petition yesterday demanding a college-wide referendum on Harvard's plan to send grade rankings to local draft boards...
Although it would probably be impossible to hold the referendum this Spring, committee leaders said that they hoped it could be held next Fall. Instead, they hope that Harvard will simply inform the local boards that the student is in good standing at the College...
...Sisk Bill called for a referendum to select a 15-member charter-writing board. The charter written by the board would be submitted to a second referendum. If approved, the charter would proceed to Congress, which could veto the whole charter if it objected to anything in it. Should Congress veto the charter, the whole process would have to begin again with a new referendum to select a charter-writing board...
...rules, already tentatively approved by the Radcliffe College Council, will go into effect at the beginning of next year. They will not be put to a college referendum...
...more about the situation. Now, dutifully prepared, he states that "the President is doing everything possible in the interest of the United States and Vietnamese people, although our emphasis should be on political objectives, not military objectives." He adds that the Vietnamese people should have local elections and a referendum in November 1966 and national elections a year later. It is a neat little package, spoon-fed to Brooke by several Harvard professors...