61.   Ireland is the only one where a constitutional referendum is needed.

62.   It has suggested the interim parliament should be extended for two years in order to allow the organisation of general elections and for a constitutional referendum.

63.   Lukashenko is planning to hold his own constitutional referendum the same day.

64.   Lukashenko fired Gonchar during a live television broadcast Thursday after the commission chairman said he would refuse to validate the outcome of the constitutional referendum.

65.   President Lech Walesa urged Thursday Poles to vote in favor of a constitutional referendum introducing a presidential-style regime.

66.   Residents of the main island in the Comoran Federation, Grande Comore, began voting Sunday in a constitutional referendum that is to lead to a presidential election.

67.   Several million Algerians voted Thursday in a constitutional referendum rejected by the opposition, amid tight security to prevent violence by armed Moslem fundamentalists.

68.   The Algerian government has mobilised forces to convince voters to approve Thursday a vast constitutional referendum which has been denounced by a divided opposition.

69.   The court had earlier ruled that the constitutional referendum could go ahead, but would not be binding, because the proposed changes were so radical.

70.   The constitutional referendum appears to be the most urgent, observers said.