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Premier John Swan fulfilled his pledge to step down as leader of his party after Bermuda voted down a referendum calling for independence from Britain by a margin of three-to-one.TIME's Cathy Boothreports: "There is a growing sense in Bermuda that its problems -- drugs, in particular -- are beyond its control without Britain." Bermudans were also likely concerned that independence might weaken the country economically. The World Bank consistently ranks Bermuda one of the five richest countries in the world. "The voters probably felt that if it isn't broke, so to speak, why fix it?" said Booth...
...described himself as "the most progressive candidate in the race," and said he believes rent control will be a key issue in the council race. Rent control, a politically divisive issue in Cambridge for decades, was abolished by state referendum last year...
...presidential run for 1996, promised to challenge their decision in the courts and in the streets. ''The protests will escalate,'' he said. ''This is not over.'' He's right about that, but perhaps not entirely in the way he has in mind. Next year Californians will vote in a referendum on a measure that would forbid the state to use affirmative action not only in public education but also in state employment and contracting. Polls show three-fourths of the state's voters supporting...
...were to happen, L.A. would indeed repeat the experience of Orange County. Until 1978, both counties, like the rest of California, had comfortable social services, financed primarily by property taxes. In that year, both counties sacrificed much of that revenue to the statewide Proposition 13, the property-tax-cutting referendum that presaged the Reagan revolution. For a decade and a half, the state government in Sacramento made up the difference. But three years ago, in the midst of California's particularly nasty recession, those payments were suspended. "The state is withholding about $1 billion a year," says Yaroslavsky. "Guess what...
...effort to turn the elections into something of a referendum on the issue, the Harvard-Radcliffe Alumni Against Apartheid (HRAAA) began nominating candidates by petition to run against the official slate...