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In this edition,
FRONTLINE/World travels to Lebanon,
where the terrorist group Hezbollah has become an accepted
part of mainstream society-complete with its own uniformed
army, political party, schools, hospitals, and stores that
sell everything from Hezbollah perfume to postcards. Also
featured: Reporter Sam Quinones journeys to the remote highlands
of Guatemala
and southern Mexico, where traditional coffee
growers are being driven off their land, and are turning
to "fair trade" gourmet coffee importers in the United States
for help; and a journey to Nepal,
where a group of Sherpa women attempt to make history
as the first to climb Mount Everest.
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In "The Road
to Kirkuk," reporter Sam Kiley joins Kurdish soldiers and
Green Berets as they fight their way into Kirkuk in northern
Iraq-the Kurds' "Jerusalem"-and begin to reclaim
and rebuild the city that Saddam Hussein had "ethnically
cleansed." Correspondent Nguyen Qui Duc, meanwhile, returns
to his native Vietnam, where he confronts his own
war-shattered past and discovers a country rushing into
the future in "Looking for Home." Also featured: a nostalgic portrait from France where world music reporter Marco Werman meets up with pianist Maurice el Medioni, an Algerian Jew who pioneered melodies mixing Arab music with American jazz and French pop songs.
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Reporter Orlando
de Guzman travels to the Philippines, where he witnesses
the war between the government and Islamic rebels on the
island of Mindanao, and meets the U.S soldiers who may soon
join that fight. Also featured: Encore reports from the West Bank,
a flashpoint in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict where journalists say they have become targets of Israeli soldiers firing rubber bullets and even live ammunition; and, to the remote Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan, where cable television is being introduced for the first time.
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FRONTLINE/World
joins forces with New York Times reporter Juan Forero
to investigate the political crisis in Venezuela and
19 unsolved murders that have bitterly divided the country.
Also featured: a visit to India, where reporter
Arun Rath finds the world's most wanted terrorist, Osama
bin Laden-or at least the actor who portrays him in a startling
street theater performance of 9/11 and its aftermath; and
a dispatch from China, where scientist David Ho, the AIDS drug cocktail pioneer, is now hot on the trail of a cure for SARS.
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