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President Jose Sarney of Brazil is a head of state by happenstance: he inherited his post in April 1985 from Tancredo de Almeida Neves, who died before taking office. Sarney, 56, last week received a mandate of his own. His center-left Brazilian Democratic Movement Party (P.M.D.B.) won a landslide victory that gave it majority control of the 559-member congress and at least 20 of the country's 23 state governorships. The outcome ensured that the P.M.D.B. will also have a dominant voice when legislators draft a new constitution next year...
More than a million Brazilians waited last week in the streets and plazas of Belo Horizonte, the state capital of Minas Gerais. After a solemn state funeral in Brasilia, Tancredo de Almeida Neves, Brazil's first civilian President-elect in 21 years, was returning in death to the region of his birth. As the red fire truck bearing his coffin moved through the city's center, the huge crowd of mourners seemed suddenly overcome by a mixture of grief and joy at the life and accomplishments of their native son. Waving flags and white handkerchiefs, they followed the coffin, some...
...commitments will be our commitments. His dream will be our dream." The new leader is expected to benefit immediately from the public demand that Neves' legacy be fulfilled. Said Federal Deputy Del Bosco Amaral, a member of Neves' Brazilian Democratic Movement Party: "In a strange way, one of Tancredo's greatest achievements only took place after he died. His death left Brazil with only one path: democracy...
...this time to drain two abscesses. It was Neves' fifth operation in 21 days. As relatives and friends prepared themselves for the worst, Neves began to show signs of growing stronger, and was said by a spokesman to be in stable condition. Said Dr. Henrique Walter Pinotti, chief surgeon: "Tancredo Neves is still alive because of his sheer determination to live...
...event of the President-elect's death. Vice President Jose Sarney, 54, concluded that he could no longer keep official matters on hold. "I'm going to start wielding my pen," he said after the fourth operation. "Regardless of the respect I have for President Tancredo Neves, the interests of the country are at stake." At week's end the country focused on the question repeatedly asked by Neves at the time of his third operation: "How much longer? How soon is this going to be over...