Word: retainers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Botha's Nationalists now hold a commanding 126 seats, and all pollsters and experts predict they will retain their majority. But Botha is aged, and the struggle to succeed him is expected to start soon after the election. Professor Sampie Terreblanche estimates that the "enlightened" wing of the party amounts to about 30% and the reactionary right wing to another 30%, with the remaining 40% spread out between. The winner must face new elections in 1989, and that clash may generate major changes, new alignments, even a new party...
...least to buy some time for further changes. And the demand of the black majority's leaders, both in and out of prison, is not just change but a change to black power. An election without blacks, one Soweto leader said last week, is "obscene." Botha and the Afrikaners retain full control of the instruments of power: almost all the officers of the well-equipped police force are Afrikaners, and the army is unquestionably the best on the continent. But facing the angry defiance of the black majority, backed by the economic and moral opposition of the outside world...
...guidelines represent a compromise between complete judicial discretion and fixed sentences, a now disfavored reform in which specific crimes get unvarying punishments without parole. Under the new federal proposal, judges would retain a small range of discretion and could depart from the guidelines in certain instances. If they did so, however, they would have to give their reason on the record, and those sentences could be appealed...
...switch to coeducation now seems a remote possibility, she added. Sophomore Beth S. Posner, the student representative to the faculty, said that a quorum of students voted unanimously to retain the college's single-sex status...
...contract with Frank Kramer, the owner of the building, said that if the building is destroyed, the lease is over," Eisenstat said. He added that since Jack's will retain its Cambridge liquor license, he hopes to move the club to another location in the city...