The World - News from April 16, 1985

Doctors lowered Tancredo Neves’ body temperature to 95.9 degrees because a liquid buildup and infection had halved the ability of the Brazilian president-elect’s lungs to absorb oxygen. The chilling reduced the amount of energy his body uses and so cut the amount of oxygen needed, but it also drove his heart rate up to 180, a doctor said. Neves, 75, who has had seven operations since being hospitalized hours before he was to be inaugurated, is being kept alive only with kidney dialysis and a respirator, doctors said.