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Brazil

 
         PRESIDENT:
         Fernando Henrique Cardoso

         VICE PRESIDENT:
         Aureliano Chavez
         current: Maciel Marco

         SPECIAL MINISTER OF AGRARIAN REFORM:
         Raul Jungmann

         SPECIAL MINISTER OF POLITICAL COORDINATION:
         Luiz Carlos Santos

         MINISTER OF THE AERONAUTICS:
         Ten.-Brig.-Ar Lélio Viana Lobo

         MINISTER OF AGRICULTURE, FOOD SUPPLIES:
         José Eduardo Andrade Vieira
         current: Arlindo Porto, since 8/May/96

         MINISTER OF THE ARMY:
         Gen. Zenildo Gonzaga Zoroastro de Lucena

         MINISTER OF INDUSTRY, TRADE AND TOURISM:
         Dorothea Werneck
         current: Francisco Oswaldo Neves Dornelles, since 26Apr96

         MINISTER OF COMMUNICATIONS:
         Sergio Roberto Vieira da Motta

         MINISTER OF CULTURE:
         Francisco Corréa Weffort
         currentCarlos Mendoê.,a de Barros,since 29Apr98

         MINISTER OF EDUCATION AND SPORTS:
         Paulo Renato de Souza

         MINISTER FOR ENVIRONMENT, WATER RESOURCES AND THE AMAZON REGION:
         Gustavo Krause Gonçalves Sobrinho

         MINISTER EXTRAORDINAIRE FOR SPORTS:
         Edson Arantes do Nascimento (Pele)

         MINISTER OF FINANCE:
         Pedro Sampaio Malan

         MINISTER OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS:
         Emb. Luiz Felipe Palmeira Lampreia

         MINISTER OF HEALTH:
         Adib Jatene
         current: Carlos Cesar de Albuquerque

         MINISTER OF JUSTICE:
         Nelson Jobim
         acting minister: Milton Seligman

         Current Minister: Iris Resende Machado -since 17May97
         * LA Weekly Report 

         MINISTER OF LABOR:
         Paulo de Tarso Ameida Paiva

         MINISTER OF MINES AND ENERGY:
         Raimundo Mendes Brito

         MINISTER OF THE NAVY:
         Alm. Esq. Mauro César Rodrigues Pereira

         MINISTER OF PLANNING AND BUDGET:
         José Serra
         current: Antonio Kandir

         MINISTER OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY:
         José Israel Vargas

         MINISTER OF SOCIAL SECURITY AND ASSISTANCE:
         Reinhold Stephanes

         MINISTER OF TRANSPORTATION:
         Odacir Klein, resigned after his involvement in a hit-and-run car        accident, which claimed a life.
         replaced b acting minister: Aclides Saldanha
         Current Minister: Eliseu Padilha-since 17 May, 1997
         * LA Weekly Report

         MINISTER OF FEDERAL ADMINISTRATION AND STATE    REFORM:
         Luiz Carlos Bresser Pereira

         SECRETARY OF REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT:
         Cicero Lucena

         SECRETARY TO THE PRESIDENT FOR STRATEGIC AFFAIRS:
         Ronaldo Mota Sardenberg

         SECRETARY GENERAL OF THE PRESIDENCY:
         Eduardo Jorge Caldas Pereira

         CHIEF OF STAFF FOR THE CIVIL HOUSEHOLD OF THE PRESIDENCY:
         Clóvis de Barros Carvalho

         CHIEF OF STAFF FOR THE MILITARY HOUSEHOLD OF THE PRESIDENCY:
         General Alberto Mendes Cardoso

         CHIEF OF STAFF OF THE ARMED FORCES JOINT STAFF:
         Benedito Bezerra Leonel

         PRESIDENT OF THE CENTRAL BANK:
         Gustavo Loyola

         Ambassador to the United States:
         Paulo Tarso Flecha de Lima

         Permanent Representative to the United Nations:
         Celso Luis Nunes Amorim