Word: retainers
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However, the whites' commitment to reform stops short of entrusting their own destiny to any other than white hands. If apartheid as a method has failed to protect their rights and privileges, whites will find another, more palatable way to retain them. De Klerk has put the position squarely a number of times: "White domination must end, but we are not prepared to exchange it for black domination...
...rights concept would permit whites to live much as they do now. At the national level, it would require a cumbersome system of multiple lawmaking bodies ruling on narrow issues, with some sort of mechanism to settle issues of common interest that would allow the minority white community to retain a disproportionate share of power. Whites may be willing to go further than before toward accommodating black demands, but not all the way to a fully integrated society...
Many Germans were also outraged to learn that the U.S. military is free to tap German telephone lines without court orders or even the knowledge of the Bonn government. The Allies retain the right to impose death sentences, control inter-German airspace and veto West German decisions concerning Berlin. The rights are resented even if they go unused, as has been the case with death sentences, and more so when used, as happened in 1988 when a U.S. eavesdropping operation exposed the fact that a West German firm was helping build a poison-gas plant in Libya...
...grew up in Berlin, the son of middle-class German Jewish parents who were so "assimilated" that they couldn't believe that the Nazis would retain power for more than a few years, or were really serious about their anti-Semitic slogans; until shop windows were smashed, synagogues burned, and lawyers, doctors, and businessmen carted off by the thousands to concentration camps during and after the "Crystal Night" of November...
Konstantin Trenchev, a leader of the Union of Democratic Forces, an umbrella opposition group, said he doubts the hard-liners can retain lasting influence, given the radical changes in Eastern Europe...