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...mediator, Neves had once before been called upon at a crucial juncture in Brazilian history. In 1961 the country's generals grew restless under a populist President, Joao Goulart. Neves was asked to take the newly created job of Prime Minister, thus diluting Goulart's power. By accepting, he helped preserve civilian rule a little longer. Two years after Neves stepped down in 1962, Goulart was overthrown in a coup. The military ruled until Neves won the presidency last January...
...miles north of Rio de Janeiro, President Sarney said, "His commitments will be our commitments. His dream will be our dream." The new leader is expected to benefit immediately from the public demand that Neves' legacy be fulfilled. Said Federal Deputy Del Bosco Amaral, a member of Neves' Brazilian Democratic Movement Party: "In a strange way, one of Tancredo's greatest achievements only took place after he died. His death left Brazil with only one path: democracy...
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...
That was not enough, however, to calm a sense of disquiet in Brazilian political circles. Neves fell ill the night before he was scheduled to take the oath of office as Brazil's first civilian President after 21 years of military rule; his Vice President had to be sworn in in his stead. Would Neves ever take power? And what about the health of the government during his prolonged absence...
...questions remained unanswered, but members of Neves' Brazilian Democratic Movement Party realized that their leader's delicate condition was more than a temporary crisis. In the short run, that should not pose a problem. Constitutionally, executive authority is in the hands of Vice President Sarney, the former chairman of the military-backed Democratic Social Party, which ceded power to Neves following his Jan. 15 election by Brazil's 686- member electoral college. Nor was there much concern that the military would grow restless: Army Minister Leonidas Pires Gon(pi202)alves told the press that "the Brazilian army will comply exactly...