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- <text id=93TT1580>
- <title>
- May 03, 1993: Crowning Blow
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1993
- May 03, 1993 Tragedy in Waco
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- THE WEEK, Page 23
- WORLD
- Crowning Blow
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- <body>
- <p> Don't change the system; change the people. That's the
- message Brazilians sent in a national plebiscite on their form
- of government. Preliminary tallies showed voters favoring the
- current presidential system over a parliamentary option by 2 to
- 1. And republicans roundly defeated those favoring a revival of
- Brazil's monarchy, 66% to 11%. Most telling, nearly half the
- eligible voters boycotted the compulsory election or spoiled
- their ballots. With inflation nearing 30% a month, many
- Brazilians felt the plebiscite missed the point.
- </p>
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- </body>
- </article>
- </text>
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