Word: affonso
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...simply too low. Only 86 bodies were recovered after a gasoline-fed blaze exploded into a giant fireball that looked like an atomic mushroom cloud. Yet some 9,000 people lived in Vila SocÓ, a patchwork of wooden shacks built on stilts over a marshy swamp. Coroner Carlos Affonso Figueiredo found it strange that no bodies of children under five years of age had been discovered among the ashes and in the hot rubble that burned 8.5 acres...
...growing number of Brazilians running the political gamut from far leftists to conservative industrialists believe the President's stringency could cause a domestic disaster. Two weeks ago, Central Bank Chief Carlos Langoni, who thinks the government's targets are unrealistic, quit in protest and was replaced by Affonso Celso Pastore. An ally of Planning Minister Antônio Delfim Netto, the country's economic boss, Pastore is likely to support the domestic clampdown. Pastore, 44, is a former state finance secretary and economics professor at the University of São Paulo...