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Rejectionists are taking their second shot at Northern Ireland's peace agreement today after having failed to stop it in May's referendum. Dissident Republicans signaled their intentions yesterday by detonating a car bomb near a police station in Newtownhamilton, but anti-agreement Unionists are relying on the ballot rather than the bullet. Protestant hardliners led by Reverend Ian Paisley hope they can win enough seats in today's election for the new Northern Ireland Assembly to gum up the works. "They say they're out to defend the Union," says TIME London bureau chief Barry Hillenbrand. "But that...
...sovereign Taiwan Republic." But the straits crisis of 1996 sobered the party's leaders, and they are busy revising their approach, now saying they would hold off indefinitely on independence and use it as a defensive tool. If China became too threatening, the D.P.P. says, it would call a referendum on independence, then appeal to the world to recognize the new state of Taiwan and support the political will of a free people...
...thoroughly shocked at how many votes we got for the grape referendum," Daniel R. Morgan '99, a member of the PSLM, said in a May interview. "I think this year has been a more activist year than previous years...
Somerville was a natural place for them to turn. Having voluntarily stopped rent control in the 1970s, it was relatively unaffected by the 1994 state referendum which ended rent control...
...Irish voters approved a referendum to legalize divorce, winning over the opposition of the Pope in a predominantly Catholic country...