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...agreement with Syria is ever reached, Rabin promises a national referendum to ratify it. His chances will improve immeasurably if the U.S. agrees to station troops on the Golan to monitor the deal. Clinton has indicated he would send them, but political realities dictate that Congress approve the deployment, and Helms is only one of many who say no. "Just like in Beirut, our forces would be an inviting target for extremists out to derail the peace even if Syria itself really favors it," says New York Senator Al D'Amato, whose views on the matter are respected by other...
BOSTON--A state referendum to repeal rent control cannot take effect until the courts decide whether the conduct of the November vote was constitutional, a Suffolk Country appellate judge ruled yesterday...
Chapter 129, a law passed by the state legislature in August, permitted Connolly, who administered the referendum, to provide the paper summaries, rather than printing them on the ballots, as Article 48 of the state constitution requires...
Along with the rent control referendum, the other affected questions are Question 3, a change in the funding structure of Mass. Student PIRG; Question 4, a term-limits measure; Question 5, an easing of "blue laws," and Question 8, which would raise gasoline-tax spending on highways...
...interview yesterday, Carol R. Tobias, a Dorchester resident who filed the lawsuit against Connolly, said the referendum vote had contained numerous irregularities...