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...possible changes include: making the presidential election a campus-wide student referendum, limiting the number of representatives from each House, increasing U.C. terms to a full year, forcing U.C. representatives to serve on their respective House committees, opening the financial books to the public and ensuring administrative approval of large financial expenditures...
...like it. The 13,000 settlers who live on the Heights, supported by many other Israelis, have mounted noisy protests denouncing Rabin's plans to give back territory. In the hours after the Geneva meeting, Rabin felt he needed to defuse a fresh outcry and abruptly called for a referendum on the future of the Golan. Whether or not a plebiscite would ever be accepted by Syrians -- or Israelis -- Rabin's gambit had the immediate effect of cooling off his opponents. It also sent a powerful message to Assad: It will not be a simple matter for Israel to turn...
...seeks "normal, peaceful" relations with Israel -- under certain conditions. Among them is the complete return of the Golan Heights, which Israel captured in 1967. Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin said that before a substantial Israeli withdrawal from the Golan Heights could be considered, his government would hold a national referendum on the subject. Israel plans to resume peace talks with Syria this week in Washington...
...Yeltsin, who called the elections last September before crushing a hard-line revolt in a bloody showdown with the former parliament, he is reaping precisely what he sowed. Having chosen to stand above the electoral frenzy and endorse no party, Yeltsin threw his energies into only one contest -- the referendum on a new draft constitution. Yeltsin's popular clout brought in a 58% vote of support for the constitution, which grants him sweeping powers, among them the right to disband the parliament. But the legislative races failed to produce a new guard of professionals who would put constitutional rule...
...Russian democrats were as concerned about a referendum victory. Radical economist Grigori Yavlinsky, leader of a reform bloc ranked second in public-opinion polls, believes a popularly elected legislature would be empowered to amend and ratify the constitution if it failed at the ballot box. But this is precisely the scenario Yeltsin wants to avoid. Since the new batch of deputies elected this week is likely to be an unwieldy mix of democrats, centrists, communists and nationalists, he could find himself confronted by a new parliament just as intent on whittling down his powers as the one he dissolved. Without...