51.   It provides an immediate agenda for conservative Republicans that, along with the November election results, has been craftily interpreted as a national referendum for change.

52.   Last month, a national referendum to put an end to proportional representation and move toward a two-party system narrowly failed to attract enough voters to pass.

53.   Lamassoure, the government spokesman, said the government had not discussed putting the welfare reforms to a national referendum or calling early parliamentary elections.

54.   Lukashenko acted after staging a national referendum that most international observers say was rigged.

55.   McCain is in a powerful position to turn the presidential election into a national referendum on money in politics.

56.   Most radically, Gephardt would seek to freeze this system as is by requiring a national referendum to raise rates.

57.   Perot had already suggested that he would support national referendums on any tax increases or spending programs.

58.   Put to a national referendum, the draft would have increased presidential powers and allowed the government to seize white-owned farms without compensation.

59.   Samper denies the charges and refuses to step aside, offering instead a national referendum on his political future.

60.   Samper has proposed a national referendum to decide his fate, but that idea has drawn harsh criticism from politicians, analysts and leading newspapers.