Critical Vote in Canada Canadian voters face a crucial referendum to determine whether to confer special status on the French-speaking minority in Quebec.

Two weeks from Sunday, Mr. Yeltsin faces a crucial referendum on his performance as President and on his economic reforms.

Furthermore, the Ayatollah's death came a few weeks before a crucial referendum that will significantly change the country's Constitution.

On Sunday, Ukrainians will vote in a crucial referendum on independence and a presidential election.

His announcement comes in the same week that two more cabinet ministers fled his government, and just ahead of a crucial referendum on Poland's entry into the European Union.

With a crucial referendum on European union due in the autumn, President Mitterrand needed the boost his visit seems to have provided.

Canadian voters face a crucial national referendum on Monday to determine whether to confer special status on the country's French-speaking minority in Quebec and thwart a new separatist campaign.

Boris Yeltsin is raising Russian wages, increasing spending and helping bankrupt industries to win a crucial referendum.

In particular, the sanctions had threatened to strengthen opposition to the Union, and the common European currency, in a crucial referendum on the euro in Denmark this month.

Among some Taiwanese Independence supporters, it is believed that a pan-green majority could force a crucial referendum for constitutional reform and, perhaps, to further move the island toward de jure independence.