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- <text id=89TT0817>
- <title>
- Mar. 27, 1989: World Notes:Brazil
- </title>
- <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>
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- </body></article>
- </text>
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