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...schedule. There she will have to defend her husband's refusal to sell an extra $50 million in arms to the rightist regime, his statements on human rights violations, and his opposition to Brazil's purchase of a nuclear power plant from West Germany. Brazilian President Ernesto Geisel has agreed to receive her with all due correctness ?but may well have some pointed questions...
...only for that reason, the elections last week of aldermen and mayors in 3,968 municipalities had more than local import. Their significance was further heightened by the intense nationwide campaign waged by President Ernesto Geisel, 68, the Brazilian military's hand-picked chief of state. Though securely ensconced in his own job as President until 1979, Geisel jetted through 16 of Brazil's 21 states, kissing babies, cutting ribbons and shaking every hand in sight like any vote-hungry candidate. Along the way, he invested much of his personal prestige on behalf of local candidates...
...Geisel had apparently won his gamble for a mandate-namely, a majority vote for ARENA candidates-but not by the margin he sought. As Columnist Carlos Castello Branco wrote in Jornal do Brasil, "This is a victory with the flavor of defeat." As expected, ARENA candidates won in Brazil's rural backlands, but MDB swept five of Brazil's largest cities by substantial margins...
Black Beans. The opposition's showing was doubly impressive in view of the odds stacked against it. Unable to field candidates in a quarter of Brazil's municipalities, MDB was also stripped of a politically potent weapon-television. Under a strict electoral code drawn up by Geisel's Minister of Justice, Armando Falcào, candidates of both parties were forbidden to use TV or radio to speak to the voters. Meanwhile, "public service" broadcasts extolling the achievements of the revolution flooded the air waves. Weighing the opposition's impressive vote against these obstacles, political observers...
...Geisel's tentative liberalization policies may have been partly responsible for a decision last week of General Augusto Pinochet's Chilean junta to release 304 political prisoners held without charge since the 1973 coup...