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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...
...parallels between August 1992 in Brasilia and August 1974 in Washington were eerily exact. Like Richard Nixon 18 years earlier, President Fernando Collor de Mello vowed to fight to the end against impeachment and removal from office. But Collor too saw many of his strongest supporters -- including even the politician who served as best man at his 1984 wedding -- turn against him. Many advised him to resign before he is thrown out and thus spare the nation a prolonged governmental paralysis. Collor's hopes of hanging on nearly disappeared last week when a congressional commission concluded after a three- month...
Fernando Collor de Mello won the Brazilian presidency in 1989 by reaching out to the descamisados, the country's shirtless poor. Now Brazilians by the thousands are putting on shirts -- black ones -- to demonstrate their disgust with a Collor regime that is haunted by scandal and economic failure. An inflation rate of 20% a month and record unemployment had already eroded support for the once popular Collor even before congressional investigators recently uncovered a kickback and bid-rigging racket engineered by top presidential aides. The embattled President made the mistake of asking followers to dress in green and yellow...
Surprisingly, many of the best skaters were newcomers. Thomas bought his first pair of blades eight months ago when he totaled his motorcycle ("I had no other way to get around," he explains), and 15-year-old Chuck J. Mello, the team's youngest member, learned to skate just five months...
Weil "took a major dive" last summer and bruised her spine. Mello wears a jagged scar on his neck obtained recently when he skated through a clothes line in a nearby alley. Victor Luke, 28, sports, wounds on both elbows and knees in various stages of healing...