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...East, like his helping to rescue Chrysler from bankruptcy and advocating trade barriers to protect industry. Instead, say his aides, Mondale will preach "prairie populism" and stress that he worries about "real people, real jobs and real pocketbooks." He will particularly target large areas of poverty like the Rio Grande Valley, where unemployment...
...most likely beneficiary, is civilian Vice President Aureliano Chaves, 55. In a break with the government position, he has embraced the call for direct elections. As a result, he has become decidedly more popular than the three other P.D.S. presidential hopefuls, and the four possible opposition contenders, including Rio Governor Brizola, who all stand a better chance of winning if the electoral college is abolished...
...average wage-less than $150 a month-is not enough to feed the average family. Armies of beggars proliferate in city streets and scavenge for food in the refuse of open-air markets. So bad is the situation that last year the mobs took to looting supermarkets in Rio and Sao Paulo. In recent weeks teachers and metalworkers have staged demonstrations protesting mismanagement of the economy...
...came to Brazil's temporary financial rescue in March 1983 with a $4.9 billion loan. The measures include curbs on wage increases, a reduction of food-price subsidies and a tightening of credit. The opposition charges that these policies are far too harsh. At last week's Rio rally, P.M.D.B. President Ulysses Guimaraes accused the government of "wanting to liquidate the riches of Brazil and turn them over to the International Monetary Fund...
...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's Rio rally. -By Laura Lopez. Reported...