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...SOUNDED BRILLIANT: WRITE A NEW CANADIAN constitution giving something to everybody. As it turned out, the pact had something for almost everybody to hate, and in a referendum last Monday, 54% of Canada's voters turned it down. The agreement lost from Nova Scotia on the Atlantic Coast to British Columbia on the Pacific; six of Canada's 10 provinces and one (Yukon) of the two territories voted...
Quebec separatists avoided defeat. But to make the province an independent country, they would have to win provincial elections in 1994 and then a provincial referendum. Polls show only about a third of the Quebec vote to be hard-core separatist. Quebec's demands for a looser federation, Western insistence on greater clout, aboriginal longing for self-government -- all are likely to be fought out piecemeal in Ottawa, with uncertain results. The only point everybody can agree on is that the idea of trying to solve all these problems by writing a new constitution is dead for years to come...
Grove said that the council has yet to decide whether to have a first-year referendum or a council vote on the proposal. "I'm personally in favor of a referendum," she said...
Smokers and storekeepers yesterday expressed a mixture of anger and disappointment at the passage of Question One, a statewide referendum which places a 25 cent per-pack tax on cigarettes...
...tobacco industry spent $10,000,000 tooppose to the statewide referendum. Theycriticized the tax by saying that the money raisedwould not necessarily go to wards health programs.Because the legislature will have the final sayabout how to spend the money, the tobacco industryargued that the revenue from the tax couldconceivably end up anywhere, including the generalMassachusetts budget