Word: sao
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...friendship between a quiet Austrian couple and the reclusive man who had lived under an assumed name in a modest bungalow. Last week, on a brilliant autumn afternoon, 200 people converged on a cemetery in the town of Embu, some 25 miles south of the Brazilian industrial center of Sao Paulo. They had come to see the exhumation of what Brazilian authorities believed were the remains of Josef Mengele, the "Angel of Death," the notorious Nazi death-camp doctor who had escaped from justice at the end of World...
...navigate among all of Brazil's factions. Chosen President by a coalition of conservatives, liberals and radicals in Brazil's 686-member electoral college, Neves was prevented by an abdominal illness from taking the presidential oath of office on March 15. He finally died at 75 in a Sao Paulo hospital after enduring seven operations in 38 days...
...funeral oration as Neves was buried on Wednesday in his hometown of Sao Joao del Rei, 140 miles north of Rio de Janeiro, President Sarney said, "His 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...
...under the knife again, this time to remove a blockage caused by the first procedure. He seemed on his way to recovery once more, when another problem arose: internal hemorrhaging. He was rushed from the capital, Brasilia, for a third operation, at the Heart Institute of Sao Paulo's Hospital das Clinicas, one of the largest and best-equipped such centers in South America...
With the nation's attention centered on the presidential sickbed, Sao Paulo became, in effect, Brazil's second capital. Cabinet ministers and state Governors converged on the hospital to lend support to Neves' family. At the same time, senior government officials reportedly met to decide what to do in the 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...