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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...
Finally in 1985, he was invited to be a regular on SNL. It was the turning point of his career. His Fernando character set a new indoor speed record for trajectory from late-night sketch to universally understood wisecrack. Today people still beg him to flash the insincere smile of the fading, macho heartthrob of the '50s and intone, "You know, dahlings, it is better to look good than to feel good." By Monday morning, from junior high cafeterias to white-shoe law firms, "Excuuuse me" had been replaced by "You look maaahvelous." He also struck gold with Willie...
...release, the 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...
IMPEACHING A CHIEF EXECUTIVE IS A DEADLY SERIous matter, so it would have been understandable if Brazilians had felt dejected after the lower house of Congress ousted President Fernando Collor de Mello. Instead, the country exploded into cheers and celebrated the impeachment as a victory for democracy. Before the Congress building in Brasilia, a crowd of 100,000, many of them young people, hugged and danced...
...FERNANDO COLLOR DE MELLO USED EVERY TRICK IN the book to delay a vote on his , impeachment in Brazil's Chamber of Deputies. But last week the President suffered what might have been the decisive blow. After a nine-hour televised hearing, Brazil's Supreme Court ruled that the chamber had every right to schedule the vote for this week and to make it a "nominal" ballot -- meaning that Deputies will have to declare themselves by name for or against. Though it is still possible that Collor will pull some last-second surprise, the odds are that the required...