Word: referendum
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...student-administrator screening committeeis currently reviewing entries in a contest for anew logo that could also become a mascot. Thecommittee plans to submit five entries to astudent referendum later this year
...biggest cheers among the 200,000 demonstrators in Leipzig came when one speaker called for a referendum on German unity. East Germany's Communist leaders oppose a reunification...
...showing was a resounding victory for the opposition, which had called the two-hour strike a referendum on the Communists' 40-year monopoly on power...
...Hungarians voted freely for the first time inmore than 40 years in a national referendum thatwill decide when their new president will beelected and whether politics should be kept out ofthe workplace...
...Seattle became the first major city to adopt busing to integrate its schools without being forced to do so by a court. On Nov. 7 it became the first city in the Northwest to elect a black mayor: Democratic Councilman Norm Rice, who campaigned strongly against an antibusing referendum proposal called Save Our Schools. Yet after absentee ballots were counted last week, it turned out that the voters had also approved the nonbinding S.O.S. measure by 1,135 votes...