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| | Chaos reigns ion two-timing Rio - 06 February 1993 - New Scientist (Site not responding. Last check: ) |
 | | Rio de Janeiro's citizens literally did not know what time of day it was this week when the city's mayor, Cesar Maia, defied a federal government order to end Brazilian summer time and put the clocks back an hour. |
 | | The decision meant that while the digital clocks scattered around Rio, which are controlled by the city government showed 9 o'clock, the famous clock on top of the main railway station, which is run by the federal government, showed 8 o'clock. |
 | | Maia described the Minister of Mines and Energy, Paulino Cicero, who decreed the end of summer time, as 'Doctor Bureaucrat' and launched a campaign which he termed 'pro-sun, anti-bureaucrat'. |
| www.newscientist.com /article.ns?id=mg13718590.400 (279 words) |
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