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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...
...last June's Commencement exercises, Norway Prime Minister Gro Harlem Brundtland--fresh from the Earth Summit in Rio de Janiero, Brazil--delivered an idealistic keynote speech about the importance of the environment...
...last June's Commencement exercises, Norway Prime Minister Gro Harlem Brundtland--fresh from the Earth Summit in Rio de Janiero, Brazil--delivered an idealistic keynote speech about the importance of the environment...
...most troubling question now is who, or what, will follow Collor. So far the Brazilian military has shown no desire to retake the power it held for 21 years before 1985. But Brazil's democracy is still such a fragile structure that a long and painful impeachment process could do irreparable harm. More and more Brazilians are convinced that the best solution is for Collor to resign. But that, Collor has said several times, he will never...
...heroine of the novel is a "teen sex-bomb blond" named Bubbles Brazil. Bubbles is a bad girl, a former Rocky Horror Picture Show groupie who has become a die-hard peacenik ("I was no phony...l was bona fide. I sucked off Jerry Gracia."). But despite her commitment to hippiedom, Bubbles still has a lot of internalized racism knocking around in her drug-addled brain. So her Black maid, who is a sort of cross between Aunt Jemima and Medusa, puts a voodoo spell on Bubbies, giving her a mysterious case of 'negrophobia...