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- THE WEEK, Page 20WORLDFernando Collor Nixon?
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- Brazil's President is pressed hard to quit before he is impeached
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- The parallels between August 1992 in Brasilia and August 1974
- in Washington were eerily exact. Like Richard Nixon 18 years
- earlier, President Fernando Collor de Mello vowed to fight to
- the end against impeachment and removal from office. But Collor
- too saw many of his strongest supporters -- including even the
- politician who served as best man at his 1984 wedding -- turn
- against him. Many advised him to resign before he is thrown out
- and thus spare the nation a prolonged governmental paralysis.
- Collor's hopes of hanging on nearly disappeared last week when a
- congressional commission concluded after a three-month
- investigation that he and members of his family had received
- $6.5 million from his former campaign fund raiser, who extorted
- large sums from businessmen hoping for government contracts or
- favors. Lawmakers will vote on whether to accuse Collor formally
- and start a trial in the Senate sometime this month -- if the
- President can survive in office even that long.
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