Based on highly reliable international contacts, leaked documents and horoscopes from several TV magazines, Nostradamus' Media Watch presents a highly accurate forecast of political events across the globe.
Bill Clinton — peacemaker
US President Bill Clinton continues his global peace tour, promising to outsell the Rolling Stones' "Voodoo Lounge" tour, and with ambitions of rivalling the Beatles revival. Having already rocked and rolled through the peace-declared zones of Ireland, he visits the recently declared peace zones in Bosnia, organising lots of photo opportunities and CNN interviews in order to take the credit. Throughout early 1996 he also visits Vietnam, South Africa and the reunited Berlin. However, critics allege he is cutting his image as a peacemaker a bit fine when he visits the site of the World War I Treaty of Versailles and claims credit for the peace there.
South Koreans employ Japanese historians
The South Korean government, embarrassed by the national outcry over the 1980 Kwangju massacre, vows to make amends to the South Korean people. Despite the recent fall of two former leaders, Chun Doo-hwan and Roh Tae-woo, for their part in subverting democracy, the government vows that it will not happen again. It employs a vast team of Japanese historians to begin rewriting all the South Korean history books, removing anything that would embarrass it.
Jacques Chirac seeks new career
French President Jacques Chirac announces he is looking for a new job. Increasingly under siege by the masses in France angry at his austerity policies, and a political outcast elsewhere for his nuclear policies, Chirac finds he has nowhere to turn — with the exception of John Major. He announces in an interview on the popular French current affairs TV program,
What's Up Your Nose?, that at such times a man realises just how lonely life can be. He also states that he has been considering resigning as president and that Major has already offered him a position — currently vacant — as cultural attaché at the British embassy in Algeria. However, Chirac says that his real dream is to become either Princess Diana's bodyguard or a global good will ambassador for the UN.