Word: referendum
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Smith stubbornly insisted that a majority of Southern Rhodesians, black as well as white, want independence under the present system, and agreed to prove it-presumably in the form of a referendum. Smith agreed to shelve his threat of a unilateral declaration of in dependence. "We have chucked that out of the window," he said, "for the time being...
Some Detroiters thought they heard a flick of the backlash when voters in a citywide referendum approved an ordinance that would, in effect, give property owners the right to refuse to sell or lease to Negroes. The referendum certainly did indicate that whites were not anxious to have Negroes move into the block. But it hardly amounted to backlash in the sense of whites turning against one of their own simply because he had espoused the civil rights cause...
...that he would appoint an "advisory council" to select a group of lawyers who would draft a provisional constitution and supervise the convening of a national assembly. The assembly would draw up a new set of laws, and the whole package -constitution and statutes-would be submitted to a referendum in 1965. Khanh would oversee everything in the meantime, with one proviso: if at the end of 60 days "the chief executive still has the confidence of the government, he will go on with his work. Otherwise he will step down." But confidence in South Viet Nam is a singular...
Last week a state supreme-court justice rejected a P.A.T. petition to force, in effect, a referendum on the board's plan to integrate ten schools this year by "pairing." P.A.T. promptly threatened a white boycott of the schools on opening day next week-a move that would counterpoint the Negroes' paralyzing one-day boycott last February...
Jovial Host. After playing host to all members of Parliament at his home in Nairobi, Prime Minister Jomo Kenyatta jovially announced that he will ask Parliament for constitutional amendments that will make Kenya a one-party republic. If Parliament refused, he added, he would call a national referendum in November. Since his Kenya African National Union party (KANU) represents the nation's two largest tribal groups, there is little chance he would lose the referendum...