Word: belo
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...overtaken the Morning News in ads and circulation. But then the paper ran into management troubles. It dipped into the red during the first quarter of this year, while the tightly run News jumped to a formidable circulation lead (390,275 vs. 244,629). The News's owner, A.H. Belo Corp., could rightly claim victory, but perhaps the biggest winner was MediaNews President and CEO William Dean Singleton, 34. As an 18-year-old, Singleton had been turned down for a job by the Times Herald. Said he last week: "I figured the only way to work there...
...lose weight and complain of suffering from constant diarrhea. Others even shunned the private pool where he swam. When he left town to be tested for AIDS, Araguari police advised him not to come back. He is now severely ill with the disease and living with relatives in Belo Horizonte...
More than a million Brazilians waited last week in the streets and plazas of Belo Horizonte, the state capital of Minas Gerais. After a solemn state funeral in Brasilia, Tancredo de Almeida Neves, Brazil's first civilian President-elect in 21 years, was returning in death to the region of his birth. As the red fire truck bearing his coffin moved through the city's center, the huge crowd of mourners seemed suddenly overcome by a mixture of grief and joy at the life and accomplishments of their native son. Waving flags and white handkerchiefs, they followed the coffin, some...
...crowd converged on the Palacio da Liberdade, where Neves would lie in state. As the pressure against the palace gates increased, the mass of mourners panicked, and in the ensuing stampede at least five people were crushed to death and more than 200 were injured. The confusion at Belo Horizonte was in contrast to the order that had marked the transition of power to the new President, Jose Sarney, who had been Neves' Vice President. Sarney, a personable, well-read politician, is viewed in political circles as a competent administrator who lacks Neves' talent for building a consensus. Indeed, some...
...passage of a constitutional amendment favoring direct presidential elections in November this year. Joining forces with students, businessmen, feminist organizations and labor unions, they began to stage mass demonstrations. Since January, hundreds of thousands of people have turned out in the cities of Curitiba, São Paulo and Belo Horizonte. Even the world's best-known Brazilian, Soccer Star Pelé, has declared his support by dedicating a replica of Brazil's most coveted soccer cup to the cause...