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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...
...Some have even been poets. Henry VIII, who liked to write verse when he wasn't making life brutish or short for his wives. Chairman Mao, who, when visited by the muse, commanded the largest audience for poetry in history. Poet Leopold Senghor, former President of Senegal. Poet Jose Sarney, current President of Brazil. If political leaders happen not to be poets, they can always seek one's company, so that he may write them into immortality or simply decorate a hard, unlyrical business. John Kennedy had genuine affection for the work of Robert Frost, but the poet's presence...
...dollar. Now the government's war is taking a new turn. Brazilian federal police have conducted dozens of raids across the country aimed at shrinking a rapidly growing black market in U.S. currency. The widespread illegal activity seemed to indicate rising fears among the citizenry that President Jose Sarney's well-publicized anti-inflation campaign might be running out of steam...
...able to keep up with its payments lately, thanks to a roaring economy that grew 8% last year. But the country will have to curb that feverish growth to cut inflation, which reached 233% in 1985 and appeared to be headed for 500% this year. Last week President Jose Sarney announced a "life-and-death struggle" to halt the spiral by freezing wages and prices for a year and virtually abolishing the country's cost of living adjustments in such things as rents and contracts...
During the past month, Latin American leaders have gone on a lectern- pounding campaign for concessions from their lenders. Brazilian President Jose Sarney, among others, took the appeal to the U.N. General Assembly. Declared Sarney: "Brazil will not pay its foreign debt with recession, not with unemployment, nor with hunger." Peru's President Alan Garcia Perez, whose country owes $14 billion, has threatened to pull out of the IMF unless the agency gives his country more breathing room. Mexico's President Miguel de la Madrid Hurtado took a similar, if less militant, stand. Even before the deadly earthquake hit last...