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Brazil could be closer to parliamentarism than many people think. The House of Representatives (Camara dos Deputados) voted 348 to 73 in order to anticipate the referendum that will decide about what system of government Brazilians want. If the vote prevails, the special voting will occur on April 21, instead of the planned September 7 of 1993. The parliamentarists' victory was possible thanks to an alliance among PMDB, PT and PFL. But there are indications that any change would end at the Supreme Court. Congressman Hello Bicudo is claiming that this an attempt to change the constitution. "The date cannot be changed," he said.

"Who is going to respect a constitution that changes even those clauses that are untouchable?" He fears any change would give ammunition to the anti-referendum forces

The burning and deforestation in the Amazon is relenting. According to a report by the National Institute of Spacial Researches from Brazil, there was a 20% reduction in deforestation in 1991, compared with the year before. In spite of that, 11 thousand square kilometers were once more sacrificed to progress or whatever they call it. As for the fall on falling trees, the foreign pressure had a definite role, but the end of the fiscal incentives to the farmer of the region also had as important part.

CINEMA' IN EASY INSTALLMENTS Survival is the name of the game being played by a movie theatre, in Jacare-

NT SEM SARNA, MAS SE COcANDO Nao foi facil para o pessoal de Januaria, uma cidadezinha no norte de Minas Gerais, enfrentar a desgraca que assolou a regiao corn as chuvas torrenciais que cairam au. Doze mil pessoas ficaram desabrigadas. Mas o sol voltou, eles limparam a lama eja estavam prontos para outra. Foi entao que comecou o pior da historia, segundo os januarinos. A populacao, sem explicacao, comecou a sentir uma vontade incontrolavel de se cocar. Os mais atingidos sao os moradores ribeirinhos do rio Sao Francisco. A prefeita Maria da Conceicao Lima diz que a culpada pode ser a agua suja do rio. Sem saber como combater a causa, o Centro de Saude de Montes Claros enviou remedios para ao menos minorar os sintomas. pagua, a neighborhood on the West of Rio. With the dramatic fall of public, Domingos Carlos Barbosa, 62, owner of Cine Cisne, decided to create two pro-

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motions: people who go to his thea tre get to see a double feature for the price of one, with a revolutionary twist: the ticke t can be bought with a check. Since the promotion started, frequency at Cisne went up 50%. Even biggies are having trouble.

During Carnival, movie houses in Rio drastically reduced their prices from around $3 to 65 cents. In spite of the big titles in the marquee like Oscar nominated Thelma& Louise, Prince of Tides and J.F.K.

UNION IN HEAVENS It sounds like the courtship phase ended and we can almost hear the bells ringing now for Vasp and Transbrasil. This would give birth to Brasil Air. It would be more than a marriage of convenience. Marriage of necessity would define it better, since this seems to be the only way to fend off a breakfor the companies.The preliminary terms of the merger have already been sent to DAC (Civil Aviation Department). Sao Paulo s fill controls 40% of VASP shares, and state governor Luis Antonio Fleury wants a new directory of executives to assume the position occupied now by Wagner Canhedo (VASP) and Omar Fontana (Transbrasil).

All alone sounded like the The next hours and days right title for a president being showed that the euphoria was • given a chance to restart. Sud- misplaced. Once more, Collor denly, the dreamers in Brazil - de Mello wasn't daring It was like a bomb. The apparently every Brazilian - enough to clean the house and news came that president were atfull steam ahead,ready - deal himself a new deck of Collor de Mello had accepted to give the president one more cards. In the reshuffle, the the collective resignation of his vote of confidence. changes were minimum. cabinet. That would give him Editorials all over the counLook by yourself. And lisa blank check, the chance to try welcomed the news. That ten what the president has to respond to theimaginaryques- was an occasion for cleaning say himself, in a whole page tion: 'what would you do if the slate of corruption and in- of excerpts from his last pressyou could start all over again?' competence. conference.

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Sonia Santos, the electric lady

11 President Collor de Mello

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13 The impossible dream

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19 Milton Nascimento: what a waste!

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Suddenly - apparently --Collor de Mello had a-Chance to be reborn, to start from scratch, to reinvent his oNArn government.

It was a very short lived hope, however All remains como . dantes at the caserne of Abr.antes.

Emerson Luis, Brasilia What a shock! The first news coming from Brazil at the end of March, talked about a collective resignation of all the president's men. They were responding to the popular uproar face the continuous disclosures of acts of corruption by members of president Collor de Mello cabinet, said the reports, citing the leaving ministers.

0 Estado de Sao Paulo celebrated the event as a chance for the president to make deep reforms. "Collor de Mello made the big surgery for what society was claiming a long time," wrote 0 Estado. Echoing these comments, wrote Folha de Sao Paulo: "Now the president has broad autonomy to make changes that will transform for good the shape of the administration."

April however showed that there had been some exaggeration. Everything was more like an act, in order for Collor to fire two of his closest friends without being too much uncomfortable. It was the perfect way to get rid of Pedro Paulo Leoni, secretary of Strategic Affairs and Egberto Batista, secretary of Regional Development.

They were two teeth that apparently couldn't be saved. They had to be pulled. With this, Jarbas Passarinho, the Justice minister, ended by being thrown in the fire as sacrificial lamb.

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tion.

"This is a time for reflection by president Collor," said Pedro Luiz Rodrigues, the president spokesman.

He also announced Collor's decision to postpone his visit to Portugal that should have begun on April 5, because of the unfinished process of reorganizing the cabinet.

The president started overtures to draw some members of the opposition to his side. But the majority of political leaders were giving a cool reception to his appeal.

"To participate in this government would weaken any party," said Orestes

Quercia, president of the PMDB (Brazilian Democratic Movement Party), the largest political group in Brazil.

There was no concession from Quercia, whose party controls half of the 552 congressional seats. He warned that any member who accepts a post in the Collor administration will be expelled immediately.

Rio's governor Leonel Brizola (PDT) also hurried to state that his party wouldn't be part of the federal government: "We have never denied our cooperation to president Collor around the national interest, but to conform no."

The national pres id ent of the PSDB, Tasso Jereissati, said his party was not endorsing the acceptance by sociologist Hello Jaguaribe to be the new secretary of Science and Technology. He was, however, conciliatory: "The PMSB will approach the government as soon as the government starts to act in a way the party believes it is correct."

Collor should have a stormy time ahead. One more scandal has jus tcome to light. Federal Police Chief Romeu Tuma, responsible for all the corruption investigations, is being accused of illegallysmuggling Brazilian coffee into Paraguay.

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Party). This government is neither excludent, nor selective ideologically speaking.What it wants is to get people together in order for us to recuperate the country."

COLLOR What does Collor de Mello think about all this? He gave a long and ample interview about his views to a group of political columnists and newspapers directors. What's happening had been planned, he said.

"The idea of reshuffling and opening channels to certain areas was being cherished by me since the end of last year. Unfortunately we were smashed at the beginning of the year by those questions involving ex-minister of Labor (Magri) and the fight about the 147% of the Social Security which created a climate of too much excitement.

That's why it would be better to postpone the reform... When minister Passarinho suggested that there was a collective resignation offer,! accep ted ."

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"In practice what we are living is a participatory government. Ours is the true transition government and as such it needs to be always wide open and ready for understanding, dialogue and consensus. And consensus includes everybody, even the PT (Workers

"They are very important interlocutors. I am very happy for having reached an exceptional relationship with the governors. All of them, as much as they can, are trying to cooperate for the good of Brazil. Every time there is a decision to be made or a process like this, I try to listen to them to know how is the weather, and whether the sails are pointed at the right direction."

'All economic adjustment brings recession, unemployment. Our mission is to avoid that this unavoidable process reaches in an insufferable way the less fortunate layers of the society.

That's what we have been trying to do.

Look at the farm program. It is a way to avoid the migration for the big cities, to generate income, jobs. The CIACs, for one, take child ren out of a crime life.

The child question is an emergency and it is very important the participation of society to solve it. I think it is extraordinary the project Tomorrow Flower ofJodozinho Trinta, in Rio. The social question is not ideological, it is imposed upon us by reality."

TI-IE PRESS "I cannot argue ever about the role of the press. I even learned that it has a absolutely vital role in the process of a democratic consolidation. My father had his newspaper facilities destroyed; my grandfather was persecuted. The other day, I used one of his phrases in an article that I published: "Liberty is for my soul as much as the skin is for my body. I cannot live without it."

Freedom in its real dimension presumes a press absolutely yearning to inform the public opinion. This sometimes makes some people say: "We need a SNI (National Service of Information) again," and this gives me the shills.

"I cannot create a parallel process to that of the Justice. I obey the Justice decisions. Due to the news (about corruption) I was spending 2/3 of my time and my energy asking for the information to be checked, for editors to be clarified, for answers to be given. The reality is that I have to think about other things and I cannot stay at the retail level."

"What we notice nowadays is an ever bigger distance between a white, developed, capitalized world and possessing the technology, and a decapitaliz,ed world, sub developed, non white, without technology.

The distance between both is getting wider. ONU's statistics show that 77% of the world population lives in the Third World, with access to only 16% of the world income. This cannot work.

"How can we discuss the question of preservation or conseivation of the environment without considering the misery in which three quarter of the humankind live?

Are the garimpeiros there because they want it? Because they like it? They are there forced by the economic hardships they live under.! am not making the apology of the garimpeiro. It is only a fact.

The devastation is brought about poverty and difficulties endured by people. We cannot discuss environment in a selective way as the First World countries want. The discussion • has to be global."

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CRONICA Dancin' Days Dancar volta a ser moda nas noites de fim de semana em Sao Paulo. Os clubes proliferam tentando atrair uma clientela relutante em torrar seus cruzeiros. Os dias de semana estao fora de moda, que afinal amanha é dia de branco. (Creio que esta expressao é politicamente incorreta.) A crise ha° esta perdoando ninguem como veremos logo ad iante.

Fidelidade Nao é da conjugal que falamos aqui, mas do velho apego a marcas conhecidas. Varias pesquisas apontam a tendencia do consumidorbrasileiro de escolhero produto pelo preco antes da marca. Ate ha pouco tempo o brasileiro se mostrava um consumidor bastante fiel. Isto deve levar marcas lideres do mercado, sobretudo nas areas de higiene e alimentacao, a repensarem suas posicties, pois consumir menos parece impossivel. A briga agora 6 por precos menores.

Carrocas 0 modelo acima se aplica tambem a os carros. Seguindo o exemplo da Fiat, que lancou corn muito sucesso o Uno Mille, carro corn motor inferior a mil cilindradas, que se beneficia de red ucao do IN (Impost° sobre Prod utos Industrializados) e, portanto, preco final muito menor, a GM lanca agora o Chevette Junior, que deve ser acompanhado pelo Gol e Escort corn motores nanicos.

Ainda assim todos custam mais de US$10 mil. E pode?

Carrocinhas E quem diria, al vai uma boa noticia. Os carros brasileiros tiveram seus precos reduzidos em 22%, e devem ficar assim por 90 dias. Detalhe: as montadoras já vinham praticando aumentos abusivos, muito alem da inflacao.

Assim, o que parece ser uma red Ka°, nao passa de mais um truque pra ingles ver.

Swan Song E os tempos bicudos já batem forte nas gravadoras tambem, que a crise nao perdoa ninguem. Corn um salario minimo voce tern duas opcOes. Sustentar uma familia de pelo menos quatro pessoas corn tudo de born que 6 possivel comprarcom 50 Mares, ou entao comprar dois CDs e curtir de montao. Por essas e outras, pela primeira vez em anos, Roberto Carlos nao atinge a marca do milhao de discos vend idos. 0 pessoal de marketing

fala muito mas oferece pouco. Sera que a exclusividade dos clipes para a MTV nao 6 um tiro pela culatra? Vamos la, mocada, erraré humano e agua benta e humildade nao fazem mal a ninguem. E quando foi a (intim vez que deram chance a urn born music° brasileiro?

Neo Hippies Pois a crise agora 6 realmente alucinante. Corn 0 preco da coca a niveis proibitivos, a descolada mocada brasileira decidiu que na equacao custo beneficio, o LSD leva mais vantagem, corn preco menor e efeito major. Resultado: coke is out, acid is in. Lamentavel mas a verdade. Algum estudioso já tentou associar uso de drogas corn falta de perspectiya na vida?

TV News Entra finalmente no ar a Rede OM Brasil. corn 30 estacoes pelo pals. Ea primeira vez que uma rede é organizada fora do eixo Rio-Sao Paulo. 0 proprietario é o politico Jose Carlos Martinez. A meta da OM é desbancar a Manchete do 3Q lugar, te n5o deve ser muito dificil dadas as dificuldades financeiras atravessadas por esta., e a eterna novela do vende-naovende. E Leandro e Leonardo tern agora seu programa Global. Sad but true.

Fim de lirtha Na esteira dos escandalos, ate o ministro da Agricultura, Antonio Cabrera, que parecia imune ao virus, parece ter sido contaminado. Um dos seus assessores prestava servicos simultaneamente A empreiteira OAS de Salvador, que certamente por pura capacidade tecnica e compe te' ncia vem ganhando varias concorrencias. Muito mais interessante tddavia é o escandalo gerado por PP, Pedro Paulo Leoni Ramos, teoricamente apenas secretario de Assuntos Estrategicos, que alem de aparelhos de escuta entende demais de petrOleo, a ponto de nenhum cargo importante da Petrobras ser presenteado sem a sua aprovacao.

A lista de maracutaias 6 grande demais para esta coluna, mas d iante de tantas deruincias, o secretario resolveu pedir demissao a seu amigo Fernando. Este recusou-se dizendo: "Voce tern a minha confianca, mas you levar a investigacao ate o fim." E depois, pensando bem, resolveu aceitar a partida do secretario. 0 presidente da Petrobras 6 categOrico: "Se houver culpados, vamos entrega-los A Policia." Alguern acredita nessas promessas? Cartas para a redacao.

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AND A STREET KID BEGAT A STREET BABY (LEGIONS OF THEM) Their parents grew out on the streets. And that's where this new generation of sufferers is being born. For their parents the hope of a better life was close to impossible. But for the new babies, this dream seems entirely dead.

Gilberto Nascimento, Sdio Paulo

A new legion of abandoned children is starting to fill the streets of Sao Paulo. They are babies, the children of the street kids. They are the second generation of the needy children who live in the streets and squares of the city.

They are skinny children with a hungry face, such as Jessica, a girl less than two years old. She eats discarded food from McDonald's trash, and lives in an abandoned building in Cambuci (a neighborhood in the South of the town).

According to the Minor Secretary, the Casa das Mamaes, an institution with links to Febem (State Foundation for the Well Being of the Minor) has seen 202 pregnant teenagers last year. This year, 48 of them were seen, just in January and February.

Little Jessica is daughter of Katia Janina Alves, 18, a streetgirl since she was 14 and again pregnant. Jessica was born in the streets and spent her first night as a newborn in the door-

step of a building at Sao Francisco square, downtown. According to the mother she doesn't know what a nursing bottle is.

The little girl sometimes doesn't eat the whole day. She doesn't cry.

"She is already used to it," says stepfather Fabio Luis do Nascimento, 21, car washer, who lives in the streets since he was 16. He says he was abandoned by his parents the same way Katia was.

Nascimento makes between $7 and $10 a day, "when it doesn't rain and the activity is good." In the abandoned building where he lives with Katia and Jessica there is no light, water or any minimal hygienic resource. Another 40 families crowd the same site. According to the couple, Police have ordered them to abandon the place.

Daniela, a 12 day old baby whose name has not even been registered yet, lives under the Glicerio bridge (downtown), with parents, Gilberto, 16, and Nilza, 22, who grew up in Febem.

The couple has another daughter, Dandara, 3, who was taken last year to an Orphanage in Osaseo in the Greater Sao Paulo. The father was at Febem and Nilza was not able to care for her.

The child was taken out of the orphanage by order of the authorities and Nilza says she hasn't heard about her daughter since.

Nilza was abandoned by her parents when she was a child and she was left at Febem till she was 18. She has lived at Se square (downtown) and was a beggar. She used to sleep with daughter Dandara at the Se subway station.

Two months ago the couple set up a little shack under Glicerio's

bridge.

"I know carpentry and I can work, but I don't have documents," says Gilberto. Nilza used to work cleaning houses, but she stopped because of the pregnancy.

"I want Dandara back," she says.

"I am going to do whatever I can to give them what I never had," says Nilza. Daniela, who was 5.5 pounds at birth is doing well. "She sucks the breast and she is strong," says the mother.

Priest Julio Lancelotti, from Pastoral do Menor say the authorities should create the conditions for the street kids to raise their own families.

Joao Drexel, an American priest working for Pastoral do Menor, says that 20 teenagers with AIDS who live in the streets of downtown Sao Paulo got pregnant and had children between 91 and 92.

According to Alda Marco Antonio, Casa das Mamaes has now 24 pregnant girls. She estimates that there are around 1,5 thousand street children in the streets of the city. But no institution has data about the number of street babies there are.

"This is a new but increasing phenomenon. Only in our community two girls had children this month and four other are pregnant," says Sister Dalva Ivete de Jesus, 49, a religious with the "Community of Sufferers in the Street", an organization linked to the Catholic Church that helps the homeless.

For the "Sufferers in the Street", the total of people living in the streets in the Greater Sao Paulo is around 100 thousand. Statistics by the Bureau of Social Promotion, at the end of 91, showed 65 thousand people living in the city streets.

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The minimum wage was created 52 year ago by president Get('lio Vargas to insure the worker with the barebones essential to eat, dress and be sheltered. In its peak it was worth $400. This April it fell to ten times less.

Rodoifo Espinoza, Rio de Janeiro

How low is the minimum wage in Brazil? The lowest since it was created in 1940 by then president Getidio Vargas. At that time, the Labor Minister was a Lindolfo Collor, a man now famous thanks to his grandson who is the present Brazilian president and is famed, among other things, for promising the best wages to Brazilians and delivering the worst.

A month after being sworn in as president, Collor and his team were celebrating the approval of a law that would ensure a real raise of 449,51% in the minimum wages during the five years of the Collor administration.

According to the plan put forward by then Economy minister Zelia Cardoso de Almeida, workers would get real gains of 6.09% every other month, until 1995.

The idea was to have in five years a minimum salary five times bigger than the one inherited by Collor in April of 1990.

Nowadays, the minimum is the

equivalent of $ 58. In January, it represented $89, and this April it shouldn't be more than $40.

The Decree that created the minimum salary in July of 1940 talked about its goal : "in order that the worker can satisfy his needs for food, shelter, hygiene and transportation.

On that occasion the minimum was worth five times more than now.

The highest was level reached during Juscelino Kubitschek, in January of 1959, when the salary represented around $400 a month.

Until now the lowest minimum in this administration happened last December, when the minimum was $59.

For a very short period, in September, the minimum represented $105.

That was a high that doesn't seem bound to happen again.

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Inflation was the big villain in this story. The runaway rise of prices didn't spare any program. All the promising politics for the minimum were frozen together with the rest of the economy, including retailing prices, rents and all the salaries.

For the middle class, the free negotiation of salaries is turning into a nightmare. Even the most active labor unions were weakened by all the worry and work to keep people employed. This was the conclusion of a research by the Division of Human Resources of the Andersen company.

The study dealt with 69 firms, representing the most important segments of the economy. In this case, only salaries of Cr$ 1 million or more were considered, since they are regulated by the government.

Congressman Paulo Paim (PT-RS) thinks the only solution to the fall of the minimum is the courts. He went to the Supreme Federal Court (STF) with a suit against the executive for not observing the existent law to readjust the minimum.

He argues that salaries between one and three times the minimum are readjusted every two months. "Why somebody who makes 1.1 minimum salary has a readjustment every two months, while someone who has only a minimum is not considered," asks Paim. If this legislation had been applied to the minimum, its value would be now $100 instead of $58.

The law had thought about these adjustments but the articles dealing with it were vetoed by president Collor de Mello, which caused the freezing of the minimum.

Paim now introduced a new bill, in Congress establishing monthly raises for the minimum according to inflation. Besides, that would be a real increase of 3% every month. It is not for lack of laws that Brazilians live so miserably. •

OPINION The most visible effects of these two years of Collor's government — unemployment, persistent inflation, scandals —have been analyzed more than enough. There are others, more subtle, that we should register.

For those who are not part of the majority of the people, and are able, for better of for worse, to sail along with the economic crisis, the Collor era wasn't without its novelties. It gave us, for example, Pringle's potato chips. In reality, they are not exactly potato chips. Their amazing regularity that makes them pile perfectly inside the carton tube is because they are manufactured from a dough, a puree, a malleable material to which is given a suave distortion of form and then is fried. No true potato, if cut in pieces, would produce little potato chips so conforming to an abstract ideal of a French fry.

The way Pringle's potatoes are made can be seen as a symbol for the famous "modernity": this seems to be mainly an attempt to keep us away from the inelegances of the real. This way, we don't depart from a brutal, irregular and ugly matter of a common potato to fry it. We need a mediation, a dissolution act of the existing uniformity, so it is possible to give an aerodynamic, ideal format to the consumption object making it at the same time an allusion and something superior to the old potato, now visibly worse, more "primitive", "archaic".

Collor wanted to govern the country a little like this - - the modernization thesis simply ignored the material data of the Brazilian reality, imagining it docile, ind ifferent to its acts of will.

Two other practical consequences of Collor's government were the institution of the international credit card - an important fact for the Brazilian's tourist self-es teem —and, much more nagging, the need for us to sign the same check three times when we want to take money from the bank (for buying dollars, maybe).

It's been already said that this was the only permanent effect from Collor Plan 1. That's why, whether in the laborious rage of the repetitious sign-

THE IMPOSSIBLE DREAM (OR DELIRIUM) Collor de Mello wants to take Brazil painlessly from the third to the first world. While he dreams, the country gets poorer and problems 'get more tangled. Apparently, Collor only brought two good things to Brazil and both for the rich: Pringle's potato chips and the international credit card.

Marcelo Coelho, Sao Paulo

ing, or in the mundane comfort of being treated as a person at department stores in New York, our individuality exalts itself in a class isolation. To the feeling of persecution that the savings confiscation represented, there is a retribution with a taste of international freedom. Now is time to make the most of it.

The main effect of the Collor era, however, is ethical. Here is not the time to make one more reference to the government's scandals. There was a moral transformation more secret and generalized, from which we cannot escape easily. An example is our attitude when there are children begging at the red traffic light. During the 81-83 crisis, there were medievallooking processions of miserable people in each corner. But hearts then

were generally less hardened that today. It was a time when, in spite of the critics, Sao Paulo governor Montoro, defended the humanization for the prisons; and when it took weeks for a camp for homeless to be removed from Ibirapuera Park.

The compassion for the poor remains; but what is intensifying is the progressive substitution of the guilty feeling for one of irritation, tedium and impatience due to the indefatigable multiplication of mendicancy.

The opening actof the Collor goverrunent, related to this, was his amazing leisure trip to the Seychelles Islands. Ina very typical Brazilian ideological opportunism, it has become the fall of the Berlin wall, as a license to squander without any hypocrisy.

Few of us can present ourselves as examples of redistribution sanctity.

But it was, subjectively, a conformity, frenetic and tired at the same time, in face of the social differences.

Never the peruas were so self-conscious, never the nouveaux riches felt so well at ease to show — in spite of all the kidnapping — their unbelievable consumption patterns in magazines and newspapers.

Basic questions like profit distribution and agrarian reform were triumphantly swept off the map. The land question nowadays is limited to clenaing a lump of soil from the Nike tennis sole, after jogging at the Ibirapuera.

Retired people, salary policy, unemployment, are all problems that deserve a lot of attention from the public. More than ever before, however, they are bound to become "kitsch" — and the left looks too fragile to continue harping the same string.

Collor was able to pull one special. In the midst of the biggest crisis of the Brazilian history, with misery making the cities uninhabitable even for the richest ones, we live lulled in a true delirium that is the "first worldism" imagined by the president. This dream in practice is to make sophisticatec the consumption for the high classes during the Brazilian interregnum of his trips to Paris, Miami or New York. And they call this respect for the consumer...

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DOWN TO RIO FOR A LIFT (A FACE-LIFT, THAT IS) She was a top model, a musicians' agent, a documentary maker. Now this energetic American wants people to experience the same benefits of plastic surgery that she experienced. She is taking them in groups to be operated on by famous plastic surgeon Ivo Pitanguy trainees.

care of other people. Catherine has a son in a wheelchair who need constant help. As for Kerstin, she has an invalid husband.

The two of them were seduced by the ads from "Beauty and Health Connection". The taped message on Marcia's answering machine tells the story: the client will be able to have her plastic surgery with a high level surgeon trained by world renowned doctor Ivo Pitanguy; will be part of a small and select group and will have fun recuperating in Rio, "one of the prettiest cities in the world."

The phrase that captured the imagination of both came right afterwards: "Go back home as a new person." Catherine as well as Kerstin loved the idea to escape for a period from a life of dedication to take a little care of themselves.

Catherine said that she would look in the mirror and wouldn't recognize herself anymore: "This is not a person is a relic. She considers this story of "inner beauty" to be rubbish. And she compares the plastic with a visit to the dentist. If people spend thousands of dollars to have a nice smile why not do a facelift, to eliminate

Ricardo Bonalume Neto, Rio

American Marcia Day, 63, mother of five, grandmother of 12, and greatgrand mother of one, had a face lift, has done some work on her stomach at same operation and now intends to have plastic surgery on her breas ts.

Marcia, a travel agent who lives in Los Angeles, loved so much what she did to herself that she decided to create an agency to bring US tourists for plastic surgery in Rio, the "Beauty and Health Connection".

The three first clients from Los Angeles arrived in Rio at the end of March. Two of them have similar ages and objectives: Catherine Philbin, 62, and Kerstin Funk, 75.

Both want a face lift. The third one, Denise Sanders, 32, wants to enlarge her breasts.

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those bags in the face that turn people in bulldogs when they get old?

Kerstin, who was born in Sweden, agrees . She is loving the idea of being taken care the same way she has been caring for her husband for the last ten years.

"Where could they go to recuperate?" , asks Marcia. "Here they can have a better recuperation, without being worried with husbands, children and market shopping."

The third patient will have an extra use for "Connection", according to Marcia. For being black, she will workas a kind of public relations among the black community.

It's not a mere question of social relations. Dark skin people have problems with cicatrization. It is common the appearance of a thick scar that has to be treated with radiotherapy.

Denise is going to be a kind of a "display" of the Brazilian plastic surgery capability. Not literally, since her surgery will be to augment the breasts, and she does not intend to go around showing the details of the operation for the potential clients of "Connection".

"Our focus is holistic," concludes Marcia: "health and happiness."

Marcia was a top model in the US and almost won for Miss America. For 15 years she was an agent of musicians. After that, she worked in documentaries, including one in the Brazilian Amazon.

She decided to bring tourists to Brazil after having been operated herself by doctor Paulo Muller. The ads for the "Connection" say that the price of the package, including the trip and the surgery is half the price of a similar operation made in the US. Marcia does not want to talkabout the costs and agrees that there was a little exaggeration in the ad.

"The price is not the most important thing," she says. "It's the attention the patient receives and the possibility of recuperating in a place, far from daily worries, Marcia Day, the plastic connection. and going back home as a new person."

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Garbed in a capoeira and carnaval tunes. flowing zebra- And she did it all with a disarming, wrap dress and chatty openness and attentiveness to boldly-styled arm heraudience that made her that much cuffs by Brazilian artist Bakari, she more engaging.

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"Not me," says the United States.

"Not me," says the Japan. "Not me," are saying all the rich countries of the North, when invited to finance Agenda 21 —the document with the global plan of action to be defined in June, during Eco-92, in Rio. According to ONU's estimates, this bill could be as high as $ 125 billion.

Jamsheed Marker, a Pakistani, who is the leader of the Group of 77 (G-77) reuniting the countries of the Third World, explained that the North should pay for the bill to clean the planet not because they are more responsible for the mess — even though they are — but because they are better equipped to do this.

The conciliatory tone of Marker had disappeared when the G-77 released a document called "Earth Letter" that states: "Due to its present and mainly historical reponsibility for the global environment degradation and its ability to solve this common concern, the developed countries should give adequate, new and additional financial resources and technologies that will benefit the environment."

With this document, the South made even bigger the canyon separating itself from the North. Talking at the 4th session of the preparatory committee (Prepcom) of Eco-92, Canadian John Bell, moderator of the discussions, said that the US and Japan are not ready to put theirmoney where their mouth is. The American delegation described the proposals

Everybody helped to make the mess. Now that the mess has to be cleaned the biggest mess makers are finding excuses. Brazil listens to the excuses and continues the preparation for the big environmental powwow. by the G-77 as "unilateral, unbal- end of March. Flavio Perri, executive secretary for the anced and unrealNational Group istic." Japan wants Work pledges that the question of that everything financing be dewill be ready for cided only in Rio. the event in the Marker has no middle of May. illusions. He does Not everynot believe there body is bullish on will be any comEco-92. Carlo mitment by the US Ripa di Meana, or other countries Environmental to help clean the Commissary for world even during the European the Rio ConferCommunity, said ence. "Rio is only the UN conferthe beginning of a ence could run process," says he. the risk of being Meanwhile, the limited to an expreparation of the ercise in talking, meeting is facing whose uselesssome hurdles. Luiz ness will not be Octavio Themudo, compensated general coordinator for the National Work Group that even if George Bush decides to paris organizing the U.N. conference left ticipate of the meeting.

The presence of the American his post, facing accusations of conflict of interest in some contracts. president is very unlikely. Bush himThemudo countered the accusations self recognizes that he is under strong saying they were made by congress- political pressures. If he goes to Rio, woman Regina Gordilho who wants he will be pressured to make a comto be mayor of Rio and the companies mitment to reduce the pollutants produced by the United States. The selfthat lost the public bidding.

Themudo, who worked for 288 proclaimed environmental president days organizing Eco-92 justified his is very worried with the approaching decision as the best thing to do for the elections. Says Bush: "My concerns good of the Conference. The accusa- are two-sided: to do what is correct tions, even if false, according to him, for the environment and to guaranwere compromising the image of the tee that Americans don't lose their international meeting. He assumed jobs."

President Collor de Mello retotal responsibility for the way the companies were selected to remodel vealed that he talked to Bush on the Riocentro, the place where the con- phone and told him his presence was "decisive" for the summit that should ference will happen.

There is still a lot to do to get congregate around 170 countries.

Riocentro ready for the world lead- Collor also urged the American leader ers that are coming to Rio. The work to accept a calendar for the reduction in the pavilions where people are of carbon dioxide released in the atgoing to gather started only at the mosphere.

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FRIEND! There is a new Milton Nascimento album in the streets. And unfortunately, the world is not richer for that.

What happened to our brilliant singer and composer? "0 Planeta Blue na Estrada do Sol" is not a work our critic would recommend. Far from it. In this case, silence would have been golden.

Roberto Lestinge, Los Angeles

The marketing for this album was unequivocal. A live recording of Milton Nascimento with his favorite musicians doing an all-out acoustic set, revisiting some of his favorite songs, sort of MTV's Unplugged.

So here's the band: Robertinho Silva: drums, Hugo Fattoruso: keyboards, Luis Alves: bass and Nivaldo Ornelas: sax and flute.

The promise of hearing Milton's fantastic voice — sorry, Frank, but Milton is the one — without any electronic gadgetry was very enticing indeed. So I couldn't wait to audition it when I got my copy in Brazil.

Deep in my soul though, I had some reservation since Milton's latest ef-

forts have been, for a great admirer like me, less than convincing. But, hey, this is my favorite singer and I'm sure he will make a comeback. Little did I know.

Right at the first song, "Veveco Panelas e Canelas", you can detect some nervousness in his playing and singing. To be honest with you, Beto Guedes version of this song done some ten years ago, was much more energetic. This is a clue. If Beto with his squeaky voice can do better than Milton with his powerful one, then you are up for trouble.

Next song, Caetano Veloso's "Urn Indio" doesn't do much to dissipate my fears. The band is erratic and you can feel some insecurity. The question is why? These are well seasoned musicians and just because they are doing an album out these shows — three to be precise — doesn't mean they should be so uptight. On the remaining songs onside one, the band tries to loosen up a little bit, but oh, so unconvincingly.

At this point, the problem is clear. This is an acoustic show that was neither prepared nor arranged to be so. The repertoire is not appropriate and its selection was not done bearing in mind any criteria. A typical example is what follows.

Side two opens with the classic "Luar do Sertao". I wish Milton had left this song alone.

It is like doing "Summertime".

If you don't have an extremely creative way of doing it, you'd better not do it. Old folk songs like these permeate Milton's records all over and he always succeeded in giving them new life while — most importantly — retaining their character of being simple but soulful songs, that being the reason why they last so long.

At this point, I start to worry. What a great chance for Milton to clean the slate of a string of a string of weak albums and show that his genius still reserves us beautiful moments ahead. And I wonder.

Where is the energy that drove the audience nuts when he opened for Miles Davis at the Greek Theater, in Los Angeles, a few years ago?

Where's that voice that proves you that the great song is the one that helps you transcend? Why didn't he call someone to produce and arrange this set and give it a format? Hard to know. Although in some tracks you can still catch a glimpse of Milton's former best, it's too little for an artist that used to be so generous with his music and his soul.

This record is bound to oblivion, if you want to experience Milton Nascimento "live", try "Ao Vivo", that opens with the gorgeous "Coracao de Estudante" and features Gal Costa in two precious songs. "0 Planeta Blue na Estrada do Sol" is such a mistake that only Lennon & McCartney's "Hello Good-bye", a song about disagreement Sr misunderstanding could bring it to an end.

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Trono de Sangue/Macbeth - The same play with a different vision opens in May, in Sao Paulo. Directed by Antunes Filho and with Luis Melo as protagonist.

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ONE WOMAN SHOW Since she left L.A. three years ago, singer Nilza Lessa has blossomed into a complete orchestra, in Seattle, Washington, where she took her chirping and talent. She is now co-presenter of Raizes, a radio program about Brazilian Music; has a new band, the Asa Livre; has just finished her participation in a CD; is teaching Portuguese; and in her free time she is the mother of Caete, her two year old son. Or is it the other way around. By the way Nilza's radio program is the only one dealing with the MPB (Brazilian Pop Music) in the American Northeast Coast. Want to check? She can be heard every Saturday from 2 to 4 pm at KBCS, 91.3 FM.

ON THE BOARD She is a Brazilian of Belo Horizonte. She is also a Certified Public Accountant and a long time resident of Culver City, in Los Angeles. Now Sheila Shanker has been appointed Treasurer of the American Society of Women Accountants Los Angeles Chapter.

Sheila tells us she will be happy to help members of the Brazilian community with their taxes and accounting needs.

Sonia Braga the United States, after the says she al- less than satisfactory parready has de- ticipation in Rookie, the cided the time Clint Eastwood movie. to go back to Would Gabriela go back to Brazil. It will be this year. novelas? Why not? Globo is Said she, who is living in apparently thinking about New York: "I am dying of her for the next 8 pm soap saudades of my friends and by Benedito Ruy Barbosa. family. I can't wait to go "The only thing," she says, back." But she is still going "is that nobody has talked ahead with plans to film in to me about this yet."

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Brazil Cultural Center (213) 840-2794 Brazilian Music Center (213) 467-5715 The Dance Studio (818) 985-9773 Modern Language Center (213) 839-8427 Piano & Flute Lessons (310) 559-7347 Taquinho Brazilian Music (213) 281-6950 Insurance

Super Insurance Services (213) 725-3350

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Banco do Brasil (213) 485-0030 Churches

Full Gospel Assembly (213) 773-2301 Clubs & Associations Clube Brasileiro da California (714) 748-4669 The Brazilian Club of San Diego P.O Box 83502 San Diego, CA 92138 Brazil California Trade Associat (714) 939-1740 Brazilian Institute of Arizona (602) 451-7360 Consulate

Brazilian Consulate (213) 651-2664 Dental Care

Gilberto Henriques, D.DS (213) 663-8363

BrazilianNites Production (818) 760-4600 Samba & Saudade (818) 997-8821 Food & Beverages

na s a enng (818) 509-2906 Catering by Lucia (805) 584-0582 Vigo Brazil Tropical (213) 839-2934

Legal

Escritorio de Advocacia (213) 387-0500 Marisa's Legal Services (310) 439-6512

Restaurants The Copacabana (213) 957-0616 Lulu's Alibi (310) 479-6007 Pan Handler (714) 970-5826 Rio Express (818) 577-6010 Yolie's Brazilian Steak (714) 251-0722 Service Aloha's Carpet (818) 797-0356 Decorama - Woodwork (619) 566-7924 Soccer Brazil Soccer (213) 865-4276 Translation/Interpretation

Brazilian Intern. Affairs (310) 854-5881 Tocantins Communications (818) 343-4451 Verdiblue Translation & Interpretation (213) 255-8062 Transportation

Medical Care

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(800) 660-8507 Mane Remittance

Vigo-California (619) 286-2979 Psychotherapy

The Center for Individual and Family Counseling (818) 761-2227 Gina Ross (213) 930-2151 Publications razil o ay (213) 461-6091 News From Brazil (213) 255-4953 Vigo Brazil Tropical (213) 839-2934 Real Estate

The Prudential Bryant Buy and Sell Property All Over the United States (213) 255-8062 Restaurants e mazon a e (213) 371-2915

By Brazil (310) 787-7520 Carioca (213) 837-8957

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Express Shuttle (213) 373-1443 Travel Agencies Brazil Expert Travel (213) 387-2111 Brazil Tours (818) 767-1200 Brazilian-American Travel Ctr (213) 670-9347 Cheviot Hills Travel (213) 202-6264 Costa Azul Tours & Travel (213) 384-7200 Dynasty Tours & Travel (818) 845-5757 RTB Travel (800) 974-4RTB South Star Tours Inc. (800) 654-4468 Southwinds (800) 533-3423 Yes Brazil (213) 461-2233 Video ctus ro uctions td (310) 820-7195 VIDEO WORKS Betacan - ENG (213) 650-2824 Zuruk Video (310) 559-3724

Grand Prix 415 589-5069 Catering

Sabor do Brasil (415) 826-2010 Clubs Friends of Brazil (415) 982,2438 Brazilian American Social Org. (415) 661-2788 Consulate Brazilian Consulate (415) 981-8170 Events Promotion

inga I ras (510) 428-0698 Food

G.B. Ratto & Co. (415) 832-6503 Casa Lucas (415) 826-4334 Music & Dance Classes

co a 'ova .e am .a (415) 337-8318 Oxumare (415) 285-3084 Musical Instruments

Brazil Percussion (415) 221-2329 Restaurants

Alberto's (415) 968-3007 DePaula's (415) 346-9888 Eunice's (415) 821-4600 Bahia (415) 626-3306 Bahia Tropical (415) 861-8657 Nino's (415) 845-9303 Yoshi's (510) 652-9200 Store Eunice's Brazil Bazaar 3376 Mission St., SF

Travel Agencies

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7:00 pm - Anna Carolina & Gullherme Vergueiro at Nucleus Nuance

9:00 pm - Kleber Jorge & Brazilliant at Atlas Bar 8, Grill - No cover 9:00 pm -The Constellation Band with Samba, Pagoda e Chorinhos no Copacabana

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10:00 am - 11:00 am — Brazilian Hour on KXLU 88.9 FM, with Sergio Mielniczenko 11:30 am- Alchemy, a Brazilian Video Show, at Cox Cable - San Diego, Channel 24 8:00 pm - Georgia Martell° intepreting jazzy romantic tunes at Kafe Kafka - Brazil Night 8:00 pm - Aieluia Ball at CA. Nevada Moose Association, in Anaheim - Call Clube Brasileiro da California (714) 748-4669 8:30 pm - Alchemy, at Century Cable- West Los Angeles - Channel 3

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SUNDAY 26 10:00am - 11:00 am - Brazilian Hour on KXLU

88.9 FM, with Sergio Mieiniczenko 11:00 am - Sunday Brunch w/Octavio Bailly's Brazilian Jazz at the Holyday Inn Hollywood 1:00 pm - Afro Brazilian Drums Workshop, at Lula Washington's Dance Studio 2:00 pm - Easter Luncheon at Steer Inn Restaurant in Anaheim - Call Clube Brasileiro da California (714) 748-4669 8:00 pm - Canta Brasil on KKUP 91.5 FM, Cupertino (Bay Area), with David Haymann, Maria Jose e Xuxu.

10:00 am -11:00 am - Brazilian Hour on KXLU 88.9 FM, with Sergio Mielniczenko 11:00 am- Sunday Brunch w/Octavlo Bailly's Brazilian Jazz at the Holyday Inn Hollywood 1:00 pm - Afro Brazilian Drums Workshop, at Lula Washington's Dance Studio 8:00 pm - Canta Brasil on KKUP 91.5 FM, Cupertino (Bay Area), with David Haymann, Maria Jose a Xuxu.

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