Word: collor
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HAVING INSISTED FOR MONTHS THAT THE WORD resign was not in his vocabulary, Brazilian President Fernando Collor de Mello surprised even his few remaining supporters last week when he announced, minutes after his impeachment trial began, that he was stepping down. By resigning, Collor hoped to safeguard his political future, but the Senate barred him from holding office for eight years. Collor called the trial a "summary execution" and the sentence, which he will appeal, a "farce." Citizen Collor still faces criminal charges of corruption that carry jail penalties...
...order to show his own honesty in contrast to Collor's, the new President, Itamar Franco, presented a list of all his personal assets to the president of Congress before taking office...
...piece was the most requested number on a local radio station. Last month the government forced the station to take it off the air. Gabriel's rap is called I'm Happy (I Killed the President), a fantasy in which he describes how he assassinated former President Fernando Collor with a bullet through the eye. They don't cook with...
...impeachment vote in the Chamber of Deputies was a lopsided 441 to 38. Collor is suspended for up to six months, during which the Senate will try him on charges of corruption. Vice President Itamar Franco, a longtime Senator, became Acting President. Collor did not appear publicly after the vote, but Justice Minister Celio Borja said the President took the news "with great dignity." He said Collor does not plan to step down permanently unless the Senate finds him guilty, an outcome most political leaders now think is inevitable. In fact, Collor's trials may not end in the Senate...
...first presidential impeachment in Brazil's 103-year history as a republic. The country had held high hopes for Collor, 43, who was elected in 1989 on an anticorruption platform. But last August a special congressional commission found strong evidence that Collor had accepted $6.5 million from a slush fund operated by his former campaign fund raiser. Now the country's hopes -- well founded so far -- are for an orderly transition of power...