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...MILLION PRAYING FOR YOU, TANCREDO, read a banner outside Sao Paulo's Heart Institute. Television broadcasts mixed Easter week religious messages with prayers for President-elect Tancredo Neves, 75. In Neves' home state of Minas Gerais, an archbishop led special prayers at a Mass attended by 10,000 people. Outside the institute, hundreds of Brazilians, some weeping, waited for the latest medical bulletin...
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...
...Ratzinger, head of the Vatican's watchdog Sacred Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. Boff recalls the four-hour meeting as "cordial--Ratzinger mainly just sat and listened." The cordiality may have been influenced by the presence at the Vatican of two of Brazil's most influential Cardinals, Paulo Evaristo Arns, Archbishop of Sao Paulo, and Aloisio Lorscheider, Archbishop of Fortaleza, who accompanied Boff on his trip...
...Janeiro and in Sao Paulo, ecstatic citizens showered paper from office windows, leaned on their car horns and set off firecrackers in the streets. In towns and villages across the vast reaches of the country, Brazilians danced and swayed to the tunes of countless samba bands. The occasion was the election last week of Tancredo Neves as the nation's first civilian President after 21 years of military rule. Neves, 74, a lawyer and the former governor of Minas Gerais state, quickly promised reform: "I come to make urgent and courageous political, social and economic changes indispensable to the well...
...member electoral college made up of the Chamber of Deputies, the Senate and delegates from each of Brazil's 23 states. Despite that, Neves, the nominee of the opposition Brazilian Democratic Movement Party, tallied 480 votes to 180 for the military-backed candidate of the ruling Democratic Social Party, Paulo Salin Maluf, 53, a conservative, wealthy businessman. Pledged Neves: "This was the last indirect election of the country...