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...yellow balloons tied to a trestle table laid out with leaflets and buttons bearing the SNP logo. In recent years the party has softened its stance, moving away from the notion that winning a majority vote would give it a mandate to negotiate independence. The party now proposes a referendum first...
...Things quickly got out of hand. Winthrop House’s UC representative encouraged his Housemates to vote in a referendum on their own sovereignty. His email to the UC was signed “Gen. Sadam.” (Too soon? Two ‘d’s?) Other Houses declared war on one another, some declared their neutrality. I stopped paying attention...
...deck was stacked from the beginning,” he said, referring to Petersen’s considerable publicity efforts aimed at inducing people to vote on the referendum. “In my view I thought...that if you campaign too hard for something you really lose the measure of genuine student support behind it.” Anderson added that, the referendum notwithstanding, he believed no amount of UC advocacy would lead to calendar change...
...that referendum but ultimately became a failed President, a point affirmed at the end of 1999 when he suddenly announced that Vladimir Putin, a relatively unknown former KGB man from St. Petersburg before becoming Yeltsin's Prime Minister, would take over. In the final, pathetic chapter, Yeltsin quietly agreed to vanish from the political scene as long as Putin agreed not to pursue corruption cases against Yeltsin and his family. Putin then undid much of what Yeltsin had accomplished - for example, a tolerance (usually) of a free press - and began to construct a Russia that is stronger, more sure...
...April 1993, as Yeltsin was campaigning for votes to win a national referendum to reaffirm his tenuous hold on power, I spent days trying to get close to him. Finally, in the bleak coal-mining region of Kuzbass, I slipped past his detail of beefy bodyguards and stood face to face with Russia's most perplexing figure: the leader who promised reform but who later opened fire on his own Parliament; the man on whom Washington put all of its chips even as Moscow handed the country's assets to a new class of kleptocrats; the man of the people...