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Profiles Brazil's President Fernando Collor de Mello, who swept into office as a corruption-fighter and is now being swept out by a multimillion-dollar influence-peddling scheme. Mechanics of stealing millions from a third world government; Paulo Cesar Farias mastermind of influence-peddling scam; Other players; Presidential dreams and campaigns; Political background; Money lavishly, selfishly spent; Traced through paper trail of enormous proportions; Family relations; The fall.

Offers an essay on the author's experience of visiting the scene of the explosion at the Ryongchon train station in North Korea. Impressions upon first arriving on the city; Reference to the extreme calm and quiet amidst the devastation; Impact on the primary school children from the school near the station; Description of some of the injured victims; Importance of recognizing and helping to meet the needs of many people around the world.

Presents sketches from a book which illustrate horrors seen by refugees in North Korea. North Korean asylum-seekers who fled to a Spanish embassy in China, and were granted passage to Seoul, South Korea; Drawings by Jang Gil Su, a teenage refugee, which depict human rights violations.