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Even within the Reform Party, excitement seems to be at a minimum. For the party's nomination referendum, a total of 880,298 ballots were received by signers of Reform Party petitions. Only 4.9% of them responded, with Perot garnering two-thirds of their votes and Lamm getting 28%. In the arcane process Perot has designed, anyone getting more than 10% of the votes was deemed eligible to contest the party's nomination for President. Round 2, in which voters will be able to cast mail, phone or E-mail ballots for one of the two candidates, has already begun...
...were generally very popular, find it difficult to imbue our children with that same enthusiasm. Most of us now know the royals are no different from other people. William, the "fresh heir," as you describe him, should be released from the kingship of his country. Let there be a referendum on the monarchy soon. I believe it will save Wills some heartache. LOUIS PROCTOR Liverpool, England...
...sexual orientation as retribution for his support of a federal bill rejecting same-sex marriages. Jeff Yarbrough, editor in chief of The Advocate, a national gay magazine, said it was hypocritical of Kolbe to live a "semi-open homosexual life" in Washington and then vote against a "pro-gay referendum." Kolbe said he was initially angry about being pressured to disclose the information, but told the Associated Press that having done so, he was relieved. The divorced Republican, who is running for a seventh term in Congress, said "That I am a gay person has never affected the way that...
...three years ago. The Israelis are justifiably weary about giving up vital land areas since the first round of negotiations. What we never knew during the governments of Rabin and Peres was exactly how great the opposition was. The cloak of secrecy was tightened by the lack of any referendum to determine support for their policies. Rabin's senseless assassination might even have been averted if his cabinet had ever had the good sense to assess the true opinion of the average Israeli on the direction of the peace process rather than simply guessing...
...last election was the first national referendum on the process since the self-anointed, media-appointed "peacemakers" foisted their own brand of "peace" upon a people that understandably had many second thoughts about giving up what millions of them have died for over the course of so many centuries...