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<text id=89TT0817>
<title>
Mar. 27, 1989: World Notes:Brazil
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<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1989
Mar. 27, 1989 Is Anything Safe?
</history>
<article>
<source>Time Magazine</source>
<hdr>
WORLD, Page 61
World Notes
BRAZIL
All in the Family
</hdr><body>
<p> It was a project so simple even an undergraduate could do
it. But what Maria Aparecida de Oliveira, a student at the
University of Brasilia, learned in the course of her research
was enough to send all Brazil into a furor. She found that
nearly half the country's 570 Deputies and Senators have
relatives squirreled away on the government payroll, many of
them in cushy, high-paying jobs. Worst-case abusers included a
former Senate president who provided jobs for at least nine
family members, and a Deputy who hired his wife and three
daughters.
</p>
<p> News of such nepotism hardly came as a surprise to David
Fleischer, chairman of political science and international
relations at the same university, who says, "It's part of the
Brazilian culture." In fact, Fleischer believes Oliveira's
study was not thorough: "There's a lot more nepotism going on
than she reported."
</p>
</body></article>
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