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...tract. The operation appeared to be successful, but Neves soon had to go under the knife again, this time to remove a blockage caused by the first procedure. He seemed on his way to recovery once more, when another problem arose: internal hemorrhaging. He was rushed from the capital, Brasilia, for a third operation, at the Heart Institute of Sao Paulo's Hospital das Clinicas, one of the largest and best-equipped such centers in South America...
First he underwent two sessions of intestinal surgery. Then internal hemorrhaging set in. Finally last week doctors rushed Brazilian President- elect Tancredo Neves, 75, by jet from the capital of Brasilia to yet another round of surgery in Sao Paulo. After 5 1/2 hours on the operating table, they described his condition as "satisfactory," adding that Neves had contracted an abdominal "hospital infection" that was "being controlled." Neves said little, but gave a thumbs-up sign to his Vice President, Jose Sarney, through a window of the intensive-care unit at Sao Paulo's Heart Institute...
...occasion was to be a historic one: the inauguration of Brazil's first civilian President after more than 21 years of military rule. Elaborate festivities were planned, and dignitaries from more than 100 countries, including Vice President George Bush, were on hand in the capital, Brasilia. Then came word that Tancredo Neves, 75, the genial politician who was scheduled to don the green-and-yellow presidential sash in the modernistic Planalto Palace, had been hospitalized. Ten and one-half hours before his scheduled March 15 swearing-in, Neves underwent emergency surgery for Meckel's diverticulum, an intestinal ailment...
...after 21 years of military rule. Neves, 74, a lawyer and the former governor of Minas Gerais state, quickly promised reform: "I come to make urgent and courageous political, social and economic changes indispensable to the well-being of the people." A hastily erected billboard in the capital of Brasilia delivered the message more succinctly: GOOD MORNING, DEMOCRACY...
...similar case of schizophrenia seemed to be afflicting the Reagan Administration. At a meeting of the 31-member Organization of American States in Brasilia, Secretary of State George Shultz pooh-poohed the Nicaraguan war hysteria as "self-induced... based on nothing." Said he: "Obviously they're trying to whip up their own population. But I can't imagine what the reason is for doing that." Then Shultz provided a possible answer. The U.S., he said in reference to Nicaragua's Soviet-sponsored arms buildup, was "trying to work in any way we can to cast this aggressive...