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WORLD, Page 55World NotesBRAZILOutsiders Are In
In the country's first presidential election in 29 years,
Brazil's 82 million voters last week behaved as forecast. They
withheld an absolute majority from any of the 21 contenders,
opening the way to a second round of voting on Dec. 17 to choose
between the two front runners.
As expected, the first-round leader was the crusading
center-rightist Fernando Collor de Mello, a former state governor.
At week's end, two candidates who split the leftist vote were
deadlocked for the second slot: Luis Inacio Lula da Silva and
Leonel Brizola.
The wealthy Collor, 40, gained national attention by attacking
his state's bureaucratic "maharajas." The radical socialist Lula,
44, left school after the eighth grade, became a lathe operator and
entered union politics. The old-style populist Brizola, 67, was
once governor of Rio de Janeiro state.