The year ended better than it began for the USA's President-elect Bill Clinton , but not for British Prime Minister
John Major nor for the Royal Family. With ethnic cleansing in Yugoslavia, starvation in Somalia, rioting in Los Angeles, racial hatred in Germany and recession almost everywhere, only the Olympics exceeded expectations. There were mixed reactions to the Earth
Summit in Brazil which aimed for international agreement on preserving the planet. Tonight, the BBC's Foreign Affairs
Editor John Simpson reviews a year of false dawns with the help of BBC correspondents from all over the world.
Producer Anne Moir
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