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Describes the bombing of Yugoslavia by the forces of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) in March, 1999. Downing of a United States F-117A Stealth fighter jet; Serbian protests at US embassies in Europe; Unstable support for the attacks from US allies; Concern that the violence would spread beyond Yugoslavia; Increased violence against Albanians by Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic; Further attacks planned by NATO.

An interview with Leonid Brezhnev, general secretary of the Communist Party, chairman of the Presidium and Marshal of the Soviet Union, is presented. When asked how he will evaluate the state of the U.S.-Soviet relations in terms of the progress of the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks II (SALT), he states that an agreement on limitation of offensive strategic arms is coming to a close. He discusses the condition of detente or the relaxation of tension in Europe and in the Middle East.

Describes the financial crisis in Russia as of September 7, 1998. Economic collapse and paralysis of the government; Foreign reaction to Russia's crisis; Lack of a functioning government since August 23, 1998; Role of President Boris Yeltsin; Summit with United States President Bill Clinton and its agenda; Problems with Russia's economic infrastructure; Role of Viktor Chernomyrdin; Russia defaulting on loans; Possible state of emergency. INSET: In the heartland: Bitter discontent, by Paul Quinn-Judge.

Describes the famine in Sudan. Extent of starvation; Nature of the complex emergency; Why the country suffers from famine every three to four years; Planned aid from the United States and other countries and organizations; Tie between the famine and the civil war over the past 15 years; Failure of famine-watch groups to deliver early warnings; Warfare in Sudan since 1956; Short cease-fire agreed upon; Need for peace.

Remembers World War II as reported in the magazine at the time. What the war was about; The relationship between the United States and its troops that were overseas; The G.I. Bill of Rights that welcomed the veterans; How no war as been as popular since 1945; The belief that the war against Iraq joined World War II as a standard for a good war; News stories covered by `Time' magazine during World War II.

Focuses on the agreement made between United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan and Iraq President Saddam Hussein. The agreement of Saddam to open all his buildings to arms-control inspectors; Details preceding and following the agreement; How the United States has backed off of its threat to bomb Iraq, a move that promised less than satisfying results; The assumption of experts that the deal will falter.

Considers the efforts made by Washington to sell the United States public on the idea of going to war with Iraq if we are unable to come to an agreement on weapons inspections. The town meeting held at Ohio State University by Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, Defense Secretary William Cohen and National Security Adviser Sandy Berger. The efforts of Kofi Annan, the United Nations Secretary-General to meet with Saddam Hussein; The views of the Arab neighbors.

Describes how the attack on Iraq is being planned. The contention of the US Department of Defense that is does not plan to target Saddam Hussein; The four sets of bomb targets; The suggestion of President Bill Clinton by his private and public posture that war is inevitable; Whether Operation Desert Thunder can be stopped.

Discusses the difficulty in destroying Saddam Hussein's biological arsenal. Listing of biological weapons made and the quantities, including bolulinum, anthrax and aflatoxin; Details about the weapons search by United Nations inspectors; The involvement of Rihab Rashida Taha or Dr. Germ.

Reports on the diplomatic efforts of President Bill Clinton and Secretary of State Madeleine Albright during the visit of Chinese President Jiang Zemin. Management of disagreements; The issue of human rights; The private discussion of Clinton and Jiang; Concerns on Tibet; The formal summit meeting; Arms control questions. INSET: Spots on the red carpet..

Reports on political developments in Zaire which could lead to the ousting of President Mobutu Sese Seko, after 32 years, and takeover by rebel leader Laurent Desire Kabila. Kabila's friendship with Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni and their shared attitude of friendliness towards the United States; Museveni's successes in Uganda; Uniqueness of a friendship between leaders amid the tribalism of Africa; United States position that President Mobutu should retire quietly.

Probes the rescue of hostages who were held at the Japanese ambassador's residence in Lima, Peru by Tupac Amaru rebels. Lieutant Colonel Juan Valer Sandoval as leading the rescue squad; View of Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori that there was little hope of resolving the standoff peacefully; Detailed account of the rescue.

Discusses the Middle East summit held at the White House on September 30 and October 1-2, 1996. The participants, including Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat; Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu; Jordan's King Hussein; President Bill Clinton; The number and length of the meetings held; The possibility of progress; Demands by Israel to reopen several agreements reached in the Oslo accords; Arafat's expression at the press conference concluding the summit.

Discusses the June 1996 bombing in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, which killed 19 United States airmen and injured more than 50. Questions which the bombing raises about the American troops' safety, and about the safety of the Saudi regime; Diagrams of the bombing at the Khobar Towers complex; The Clinton administration's continued resolve to keep United States troops in Saudi Arabia as a defense.

Looks at the results of the elections in Russia in June 1996. The strong third-place finish of Lieutenant General Alexander Lebed and Boris Yeltsin in first place; Lebed's appointment as a top national security adviser and secretary of the Kremlin's Security Council, viewed as an election move; Lebed's image; The question of whether Lebed can transfer his votes to Yeltsin. INSET: Meanwhile, in the deep, dark Russian...by Paul Quinn-Judge.

Details warfare by Israel against the Hizballah guerrillas in Lebanon. The shelling which exploded inside a compound of Fijian peacekeepers where 600 refugees were sheltered; Prime Minister Shimon Peres' plans to get the guerrillas to submit; The diplomatic movement; The military operation named Grapes of Wrath which has done little to thwart the guerillas; The continuity of the Middle East peace process despite the bloodshed in Lebanon. INSET: Bloody surgery.

Comments on Russia's communist politicians and how in the December 1995 election, the new reds became the largest party in parliament. How they are mobilizing to take the presidency in June 1996; Gennadi Zyuganov, the Communist Party's standard bearer and an opponent of Boris Yeltsin; His lead in the polls over Yeltsin and two other leading candidates; How Russian communists desire to reverse the humiliating breakup of the Soviet Union.

Focuses on the attempts being made at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base near Dayton, Ohio to initiate and finalize a peace agreement for the waring Balkan nations. Demands and interests brought up by the three Balkan presidents at the meeting; Concerns of the three presidents; Territorial bargaining between the interested parties; Situations in the countries of Croatia, Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina; Peacekeeping operations. INSET: The war's toll.

Explains that, if the negotiations in Dayton, Ohio, result in the signing of a Bosnian peace, the US Army could quickly set up communications and logistics headquarters in Bosnia. Implementation Force (I-FOR); How NATO's military force would become involved; Questioning what the US will gain in going to Bosnia; American precedents being set after Bosnian debate. INSET: After Bosnia, what? (Where US troops might be sent next).

Discussed how the United States, with Richard Holbrooke exercising some shuttle diplomacy, have brokered a cease-fire in Sarajevo. Proposal by Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic to end the siege of Sarajevo in exchange for the cessation of North Atlantic Treaty Organization's (NATO) bombing campaigns; The reneging of Bosnian Serbs on similar agreements; Meeting to extend cease fire; More. INSET: New zap for remaking the map.

Reveals the ongoing carnage and human misery that is taking place in the eastern Bosnian zone that had been declared a `safe area' in 1993. The taking of Srebenica; The impotence of the United Nations (UN) and NATO to limit Serb brutality; Discussion of options; UN policy based on declarations instead of action. INSETS: U.N. safe areas: The outlook;The Pentagon's contingency plan, by Mark Thompson.

Discusses the situation in Bosnia and the release of U.N soldiers held hostage by Bosnian Serbs. Credit taken by Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic; Declaration of war on NATO by Bosnian Serbs leader Radovan Karadzic; NATO's options; Comments from President Bill Clinton at the Air Force Academy graduation; Consequences of NATO's actions. INSET: No peace for the peacekeepers, by Kevin Fedarko, Alexandra....

Focuses on a nerve gas attack on the Tokyo subway and discusses other incidents of terrorism and extremism. The use of nerve gas on ordinary citizens; The obscurity of some terrorist groups; The easy availability of chemical and biological weapons; Ethnic, racial and religious conflicts which followed the breakup of the Soviet Union; The bombing of the World Trade Center; More.

Details how President Bill Clinton's envoys to Haiti arranged a deal with military chief Lieut. General Raoul Cedras. Former President Jimmy Carter; Senator Sam Nunn; Retired General Colin Powell; Arrival of United States troops; The dismantling of Haiti's heavy weapons; The amnesty issue; Officials' conflicting statements.

Reveals that the former Soviet arsenal is leaking into the West, raising fears of a new brand of nuclear horror. Discoveries of smuggled weapons-grade plutonium and uranium in Germany; Who the sellers are; Lack of evidence on who buyers are; How the problem can be controlled; Major nuclear-materials sites.

Suggests that as President Bill Clinton and Kim Il Sung of North Korea go head to head on nuclear weapons, their test of wills grows more dangerous. Clinton has asked the UN Security Council to take up the issue of economic sanctions. Possibility that Kim Il Sung has produced at least one atom bomb; Concern over Clinton's history of vacillation and weakness toward Bosnia, Somalia and Haiti; International Atomic Energy Agency inspections; Riddle of the rods.

Recounts General Dwight D. Eisenhower's design and implementation of Operation Overlord, the invasion of Western Europe which began on June 6, 1944. The turning point of World War II was D-Day, for once the Allied forces were successfully ashore, Hitler was doomed. Design of Operation Overlord; Building the massive arsenal; Actions of General Sir Bernard Montgomery; Montgomery's failure to capture Caen on the first day; Eisenhower's correct assessment.

Recalls a Wednesday morning when, all across South Africa, the blue-white-and-orange apartheid flag was lowered, to be replaced by the banner of six colors symbolizing the people, their blood, their land, the gold under the ground, the sky and white for peace. The first all-race voting; Campaign by white rightists to disrupt the process of change; Astonishingly peaceful election; Why reconciliation, hope and nation building will not be easy.

Reports that as civil war threatened free elections last week, South African President F.W. de Klerk declared a state of emergency in Natal Province, which includes the KwaZulu homeland where Inkatha Freedom Party leader Mangosuthu Buthelezi is chief minister. Inkatha's opposition to the April, 26-28, 1994 elections; African National Congress; Background of the fighting in Natal.

Recounts the assassination of Luis Donaldo Colosio, the ruling party's handpicked successor to Mexican President Carlos Salinas de Gortari, by Mario Aburto Martinez, 23, a factory mechanic who has not revealed his motive. Colosio's death crippled the confidence of a country striving to enter the select company of First World nations. Chronic problems in Mexico; Need to tamp down a tide of anxiety and insecurity; Mexico a patchwork of dissimilar people.

Presents a photo essay with text on the implacable civil war that allows no room for childhood. Six young sledders were killed in Sarajevo by 120-mm mortar shells. A day later and 50 miles away, a mortar shell arced out of the Muslim enclave and crashed into a playground in the Croat section, killing three boys and a girl.

Recounts President Bill Clinton's trip to the NATO summit, Prague and Moscow, and notes that although his advisers claim everyone came away happy, his work may have only just begun. His genial man-of-the-people act to the streets of Brussels, Prague, Moscow and Minsk; Worry that Russia will backslide from reform and closer ties with the West; Agreement of Ukrainian President Leonid Kravchuk. INSET: Boris Yeltsin: `May God help us,' (interview) by John Kohan..