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Ten years ago this week, a bloodless revolt toppled the authoritarian government of Ferdinand Marcos. Jon Miller offers a retrospective on the fall of the dictator, and reports on the continuing challenge of making democracy work in the Philippines.

Jon Miller reports from Manila on the political comeback of former Phillipine First Lady Imelda Marcos. Mrs. Marcos was convicted 2 years ago on corruption charges. But she is out on bail while appealing her conviction. And in the meantime she's been elected to the Philippine House of Representatives. It's the first step in what she and many supporters hope is the path back to the Presidential palace she fled in disgrace nearly a decade ago.

JONATHAN MILLER REPORTS ON CONGRESSIONAL AND LOCAL ELECTIONS BEING HELD NEXT WEEK IN THE PHILIPPINES, INCLUDING THE CANDIDACY OF FERDINAND MARCOS, JR., KNOWN THERE AS "BONG-BONG."

Photojournalist JAMES NACHTWEY (KNOCKT-way). He was in Somalia in October, and photographs of his visit were the cover story in The New York Times Magazine section on December 6, 1992. Terry talks with him about his trip to Somalia: why he took the pictures he did, how he was received, why he wanted to go, etc. NACHTWEY has been awarded the Robert Capa Gold Medal three times. The award is the highest honor among photographers and is given to those for the "best photographic reporting or interpretation from abroad requiring exceptional courage and enterprise," and it entails a deliberate decision to go in harm's way. NACHTWEY is only the seond photojournalist to be given the award three times. He's been to areas of conflict in Nicaragua, El Salvador, Guatemala, Lebanon, the West Bank, Sudan, the Philippines, Northern Ireland and more. A book of NACHTWEY's photographs, "Deeds of War," was published in 1989 by Thames and Hudson.