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The Best Buy Seal is a registered trademark of Consumers Digest, Inc. lay, April 6, Brazil’s lead seeks justice Brazil’s landless leader seeksjusi %s The retrial of Jose Rainha, Brazil’s most Monday, nearly three years after he was in a botched attempt to take over a farm Rainha’s group, the Landless Rural Workers Movement, promotes land Invasions to redress the tact that most ot the land in Brazil is owned by a small, elite portion ot the population. Rainha was sentenced to 26 1/2 years in prison but in Brazil, anyone sentenced to more than 20 years is automatically granted a retrial. visible landless tead?! convicted ol killingtrl Land ownership «■# The most ailluertBraatl percent olthepofVefs 90% Jose Rainha Changing the venue The tnal was moved from Pedro Canarto to the state capital of Vitoria Espirito Santo state Pedro Canarto * Vitoria Kti+nm n. * „ Source Compiled from AP wire reports Turkish parliamei rejects M ANKARA, Turkey (API Turkey’s parliament rejectedal extend President Suleyman Dcf term in office today, a serious ti the 10-month-old govemmeii| pushed hard for the re-election 1 76-old president. Only 303 deputies voted ini ’ the constitutional reform while IF islators voted against. Itwasnoicif* the government would sedfff- vote or w ithdraw the bill. The vote was a setback^ Minister Bulent Ecevit, whohs: that Demirel’s re-election was; for stability in the country. The result was expected toct rious political bickering tion members. Many apparenll!) Demirel as the symbol of immol Turkish politics and favored# candidates. Ecevit feared that dissenii; Demirel’s successor could haul* | government’s economic i age and much-needed political sl)l| on the road toward membership^ European Union. The constitutional reform w« duce the president’s term fromse': GABRIEL RUEF rev five years, but would allow for a sf term. A new president must bee t -y OU are ^ by May 16. Presidents are electedbyparli! p a | es tj ne . and in theory till a largely site post, however the presidency to the power broker in several goveir; crises. Ecevit called on deputiesearli day to cast their secret votes in of ^ e 8 a ^y ched, be strip ched and hel ving through as, be careful >you flick of] at you could yourself ar- ed, have youi anda Prewitt ing through / way back to < manda Prew it Texas A&IV her Bryan we Station whei and a woma md pulled out in hem off. Amand >ffpie vehicle an ■The same car itt siblings at ai back up their promise to pave® for Demirel’s re-election,Hismo'i-i ^ . . aimed at 100 deputies of the govf ^ 5 Spu ' int: * 7 Ijnus excessive parties who voted against tl ’’ week despite their earlier \ dorsement, causing serious strains coalition. “The honorary status of pari has been overshadowed,” Ecevi “This contradiction must beei ed.” Ecevit said as many as 406df including members of the cenlf opposition True Path Party, hadi ly backed the proposal. Thegoven alone has 35 I seats. jtev. us said a m The prime minister’s callwi^d began yellim fiance of a warning by Parl4l acted in a me speaker Yildirim Akbulutthattopanda Prewitt cancel the voting if deputies cas 1 ballots openly, in violation!# stitutional requirement forsetf] ing. Ecevit wants to prevent^ bickering among his coalition^ over Demirel’s successor, could hamper the government ! j nomic reform package needed political stability o# toward membership in the Etofct have fij c ke Union. jn stopped by t Demirel has failed to draw% Palestine Poli support from deputies who say [ndcrson County country’s political stability ctopAt this time be linked to one person and that it f | for him to retire from politics, [man the bird heir way. 11 was well u Palestine Pol ; which they < flicked off tw ce car occupii ay and Shelby ers radioed fi siblings were many other ]