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Egypt's Hosni Mubarak celebrated his never-in-doubt re-election as President at an elaborate salute, with precision drill teams and flash-card shows, in Cairo Stadium. Mubarak's total in the yes-no referendum was 94.9%. He promised to spend his third term working "to improve the level of income of the simple citizen...
Domrin's feelings are based on the referendum of April 25, 1993, in which one third of the voters said they were not happy with Yeltsin and his economic policy. In contrast, 40 million out of the 72 million who voted were happy with the Russian Congress...
...surprisingly, the nay-sayers spoke first and loudest. "Traitor" was the favorite word among outraged Israelis. Although Rabin's Labor government was elected 14 months ago on a platform of "land for peace," Likud leader Benjamin Netanyahu called for a referendum on a deal he said would only provide ever closer launching pads for P.L.O. attacks on Israel. Rafael Eitan, a former army Chief of Staff who heads the Tsomet Party, charged the government with signing "an agreement with the greatest murderer of Jews since Hitler." In the Knesset, Peres coldly dismissed hecklers with, "You are the men of yesterday...
...were only the three networks. You could watch Gomer Pyle or Land of the Giants or Lawrence Welk. Public TV was singular, glorious, redemptive. Today, of course, there is a democratic hurly- burly glut of cable and home video. Imagine if Americans had been presented in 1968 with a referendum: either a single channel broadcasting a mix of news, documentaries, children's shows and performance, or else a dozen intermittently worthy channels, two with nothing but news, two with nothing but congressional sessions, one with nothing but kids' shows, several with music, two with nothing but science and nature programs...
...referendum last year, the right wing polled no less than 800,000 votes. In addition, they have got a substantial section of the civil service, the police force, the army, which support them. Now they have said if the A.N.C. wins the elections and establishes the government, they will take up arms. That is the threat facing us. It's a serious threat, but we aren't overly concerned. We have to reorganize the police force and make sure it is capable of defending democracy...