61.   This, given time, will improve the quality of both leaders and cadres within the party ranks.

62.   Tokyo Sexwale, the ANC premier of the province that includes Johannesburg, recently broke party ranks by endorsing a referendum on restoring capital punishment.

63.   He has additionally proposed the deeply controversial plan of allowing private businesspeople to join the previously restricted party ranks.

64.   He has eliminated all challenge to him in the party ranks.

65.   He urged greater vigilance in party ranks to prevent possible Mafia infiltration, a call which drew support from right-wing National Alliance leader Gianfranco Fini.

66.   Appeals for democratization, even multi-party politics, have increased in recent years in petitions and open letters to party officials, even from party ranks.

67.   But Persson, jolly in appearance if not in character, has recently tried to improve his negative image by making reassuring statements to the party ranks.

68.   But labor analysts said the KCTU announcement resulted from dissension within party ranks.

69.   But the PRI, with a large majority in the lower house, was expected to prevail, barring a virtually unprecedented breaking of party ranks over the measure.

70.   They charged that capitalism was already responsible for rampant corruption in party ranks, which could only get worse if private businessmen were admitted.