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...amendment calling for direct elections is scheduled to come up for a vote in the Brazilian Congress on April 25. Although proponents of the change could still gather enough support, it is more likely that the P.D.S. will boycott the session, preventing the two-thirds quorum necessary for the vote to take place, and that Figueiredo will present a compromise under which direct elections might take place as early as 1988. If that does not placate his opponents, however, the President may leave office next March to the beat of protests far less festive than last week...
...Brazilian market consists mostly of banks and manufacturers. In a nation in which wages average $160 a month, few families can afford computers. But the machines are popping up in some unfamiliar places. They help shrimp farmers determine how much feed to use, and the government has begun installing them in the offices of the country's 69 federal Senators. The legislators will use the computers to keep track of everything from the size of last year's soybean crop to the names of the children of their most influential constituents...
...largest makers of personal computers and a leader of its remarkable data-processing industry. Despite economic woes that range from a 230% inflation rate to an estimated $96 billion foreign debt, the Third World's highest, Brazil has managed to become a thriving computer center. More than 100 Brazilian firms turn out microprocessors, terminals, printers and related products, and account for nearly 50% of the $1.48 billion worth of data-processing equipment that was sold domestically last year. As recently as 1976, not a single locally made computer was on the Brazilian market...
Such arguments were persuasive to Brazil's military government. "Everyone began to realize that in the future there would be those countries that were information producers and those that were just consumers," says Colonel Joubert de Oliveira Brizida, director of the Brazilian agency that sets data-processing policy. "We knew we couldn't become a full-fledged member of the international computer club overnight, but we didn't want to be left behind completely...
While they have nurtured domestic manufacturers, the government policies have also helped to jack up the price of Brazilian computers by limiting competition and access to foreign know-how. "By and large, Brazilian micro-and minicomputers are comparable to other machines on the international market," notes Helio