"Yes, I guess," he said, but he added that such a vote would say nothing about whether the war was right.

"Three votes in favor of ouster, eight against," he said hollowly.

"Those votes say a lot about what's happening in the union, and it's a real problem for us," said a senior teamsters official.

My vote says she is in trouble, and they have found these stray children.

Their vote was not, as you say, a "rebuff both to economic reform and warm relations with America."

However, the official returns showed 183,000 more votes than the electoral commission said were cast.

Witness the 150,000 who came to Montreal just before the vote to say, "We don't want you to go."

"But this vote says that people know better, that they don't want to be told what they can and can't do with their own death."

Today's vote paves the way for new negotiations and says 'no' to allocating rights according to workers' market value.

"My vote will say it all," he was quoted as saying.