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Strategies & Market Trends : Telebras (TBH) & Brazil
TBH 0.437+7.8%3:52 PM EST

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To: Steve Fancy who wrote (8285)9/18/1998 1:05:00 PM
From: Steve Fancy  Read Replies (1) of 22640
 
Special Congress Session Mooted For Key
Brazilian Reforms

Dow Jones Newswires

BRASILIA -- There is a strong possibility that the outgoing Brazilian
Congress will meet in a special session after the Oct. 4 elections to vote
outstanding key reforms, Senate chairman Antonio Carlos Magalhaes said
Friday.

Magalhaes told reporters after a breakfast meeting with President
Fernando Henrique Cardoso that in view of the current financial turmoil
"Brazil must show the world it is really resolving its problems."

The special session will consist of current legislators, because the newly
elected Congress will only be sworn in after the new year.

Magalhaes said the priority will be to finish voting on the few remaining
points of the Social Security Reform Bill - which has been in Congress for
three years - followed by the newly drafted Tax Reform Bill and fiscal
adjustment measures proposed by the government for 1999.

Chamber of Deputies chairman Michel Temer, who also joined the
presidential breakfast, said "some political re-grouping" was needed to
finish the reform process before year's end.

He said the government is expected to present the tax reforms and fiscal
measures to Congress by Oct. 20 and that he intended to call for final
voting on the social security bill Oct. 27.

-By William Vanvolsem; (5561) 2443095; wvanvolsem@ap.org
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