Over the course of the past 35 years traveling around the world on assignments, correspondent Tom Wilmer recalls three of his most memorable encounters. A bad day in a Rabat, Morocco souk.

A friendship with a Northern Ireland policeman that turned potentially deadly; and a naive encounter on the Finnish Frontier border with Russia.

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