Word: referendum
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Just a week before international talks begin in Dayton, Ohio, to map out a single Bosnian state, the Bosnian Serb assembly voted itself an escape clause. The demand, which requires approval of Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic, would allow Serb leaders to hold a referendum on the new nation after a year. TIME's Bruce Van Voorst says that Milosevic is likely to reject both demands, and that the vote may simply be part of the Serb negotiating strategy: "It's not clear how much clout Milosevic has with the Bosnian Serbs. But it could be that Milosevic asked for this...
Maddox, who is running for the Cambridge School Committee, is currently collecting signatures to put a referendum on the state-wide ballot in 1996 which would raise the minimum age in the Bay State to purchase cigarettes from 18 to 21 and would force cigarettes to be nicotine-free...
Maddox, who was one of the chief sponsors of Question 9, a ballot initiative last year which ended rent control in Cambridge, said that while his effort to get the referendum on the ballot might not be successful in 1996, he is confident that by 1998, the smoking initiative will be on the ballot...
...officially scratching their heads over whether they will, in fact, cast their votes on Sunday for Most Beneficent Leader, Savior and President Saddam Hussein. Posters plastered across Baghdad suggest that it wouldn't be a bad idea to support the only candidate on the ballot in the national referendum. ("Life is meaningless without the leader," reads one specimen.) Iraqi officials, however, are outraged that the international community has dismissed the event as a sham. A Ministry of Information statement today, for example, said truculent remarks by State Department spokesman Nicholas Burns "show the level of nervousness and the state...
...past, much of the group's support was derived from backers of rent control, an initiative begun in 1970 and struck down by state-wide referendum last November...