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...largely by popular resentment over the American company's relative wealth and that 80% of the government revenues its gas fields generate are diverted back to Jakarta. When Abdurrahman Wahid became President in 1998, he vowed to correct the imbalance and even talked about allowing Aceh to hold a referendum on independence, but those promises fell victim to government paralysis and a strong military lobby that didn't want to let Aceh...
...trillion in personal savings kept in accounts at the post office. Japanese have had enough of that. A citizens group in Shizuoka, 200-km south of Tokyo, recently collected 270,000 signatures on a petition against a $1.6 billion new airport, forcing the government to call a referendum on halting the project, already in mid-construction...
...pull it off. Stung by charges that the treaty is a dog's breakfast cooked up by élites and foisted on the electorate with little discussion, he announced last week a "National Forum on Europe" to engage dissenting groups and raise public awareness, presumably before calling another referendum in 2002. He knows he can certainly improve on the lackluster campaign the "yes" forces ran. Turnout was only 33%, allowing passionate minorities - anti-abortion activists, Greens worried that the new Rapid Reaction Force would undermine Irish neutrality, Sinn Fein members eager to weaken Ahern before the 2002 election - to swamp...
...serve--and never mind that voters enacted limits by more than 65% in most states or that support remains high. Oregon was one of the first states to adopt limits, in 1992, but after shuffling through five house speakers in five sessions, the legislature just approved a ballot referendum to repeal limits...
...Tory leader will undoubtedly hope Labour loses its promised referendum on the euro or fails to improve public services. And if Blair slips after promising so much, the new top Tory at least will have a lot more to work with than Hague ever...