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  1. 1985

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    • Year 1985
    • Photographer David B. Parker
    • Nationality USA
    • Organization / Publication The Yuba-Sutter Appeal-Democrat
    • Category Spot News
    • Prize 1st prize
    • Date 00-05-1985
    • Country USA
    • Place Yuba City, Marysville, California
    • Caption Shannon Jones (7) is rescued. After holding his four children hostage for six hours because their mother had left him, Patrick Jones could be arrested without bloodshed.
    • Year 1985
    • Photographer Carol Guzy
    • Nationality USA
    • Organization / Publication The Miami Herald
    • Category Spot News
    • Prize 2nd prize
    • Date 00-11-1985
    • Country Colombia
    • Place Armero
    • Caption An arm protrudes through the mud. When volcano Nevado del Ruiz erupted on November 13, it sent a tidal wave of mud, ashes and rocks smashing down the town of Armero. It left an estimated 25,000 people dead, 22,000 homeless and more than 60,000 acres of farmland ruined.
    • Year 1985
    • Photographer Larry Downing
    • Nationality USA
    • Organization / Publication Newsweek
    • Category Spot News
    • Prize 3rd prize
    • Date 1985
    • Country Switzerland
    • Place Geneva
    • Caption US President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachov shake hands.
    • Year 1985
    • Photographer Nabil Ismail
    • Nationality Lebanon
    • Organization / Publication Agence France-Presse
    • Category Spot News
    • Prize Honorable mention
    • Date 19-06-1985
    • Country Lebanon
    • Place Beirut
    • Caption Guarded by an armed Palestinian hijacker, John Testrake, pilot of a TWA Boeing 727 answers questions from the press at the Beirut International Airport. The flight (847) from Athens to Rome was hijacked on 14 June and forced to land in Beirut. The plane's 145 passengers were kept as hostages for 17 days as the aircraft flew between Beirut and Algeria twice. The hijackers demanded the release of 17 members of Hezbollah and the Iraqi Islamic Daawa Party detained in Kuwait for attacks that killed six people in 1983. During the incident, the hijackers killed a US Navy diver and dumped his body on to the runway apron at Beirut Airport.
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