1.   In Lithuania, Shelov-Kovedyayev criticized the proposed referendum on troop withdrawal as a threat to Russian and Lithuanian security.

2.   Backers have gathered enough petitions and now the high court must decide whether the wording of a proposed statewide referendum on the issue is constitutional.

3.   Hull would have veto power over a video lottery terminal bill but not a proposed referendum.

4.   Some had rejected the petitions because the proposed referendum would be carried out by a political system they consider illegitimate.

5.   The Tax Equity Alliance for Massachusetts, funded chiefly by public employee unions, filed a proposed referendum with Secretary of State William F. Galvin.

6.   When Giuliani proposed that the city help to build a stadium in Manhattan, Vallone countered with his proposed referendum.

7.   While Brown did not modify that timetable, he said the government of Prime Minister Tony Blair wanted to prepare for joining in euro participation before the proposed referendum.

8.   British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw is to visit Gibraltar on Friday to urge residents to support shared sovereignty in a proposed referendum.

9.   But opposition leader Joseph Parry has lobbied for a more gradual split and wants to allow Nevisians living abroad to vote in the proposed referendum.

10.   Castro called for the marches to support the amendment, announced one month after activists submitted a proposed referendum for deep reforms in the socialist system.