CaptionOmaira Sanchez (12) is trapped in the debris caused by the eruption of Nevado del Ruíz volcano. After sixty hours she eventually lost consciousness and died of a heart attack.
CaptionStudent Matthew Pearce (16) waits for a train home from his private school, watching black domestic workers cross a railway platform on their way back to their township.
CaptionGuillermo Cardozo is rescued after the eruption of volcano Nevado del Ruiz on November 13, which wiped Armero off the map and killed 23,000. Spotted from a helicopter by a reporter, the exhausted boy was pulled out of the mud.
CaptionShannon 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.
CaptionAn 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.
CaptionGuarded 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.
CaptionDanh Kim Lieu (15) clutches a portrait of her mother. Both her parents were found with their throats slashed in their home. Police investigators believe the Vietnamese parents of five were involved in international money smuggling.
Organization / PublicationThe Philadelphia Inquirer
CategoryNews Features
Prize3rd prize
Date1985
CountryEthiopia
CaptionThe Bati refugee camp. The spiral of drought, poverty, disease and starvation forces many to live in camps like this one. While tents provide shelter for the night, the daylight hours are spent outdoors.
CaptionOne of countless victims of Lebanon's warring factions at the demarcation line between East and West Beirut. Sniper fire cost him his right hand.
CaptionDirk Müller has a serious accident during a motorcycle race. He was later rushed to hospital in a coma. It took him six months to recover, but despite his ordeal he intends to return to motorcycle racing as soon as possible.
Organization / PublicationA Day in the Life / Collins
CategoryScience & Technology
Prize1st prize
Date1985
CountryJapan
CaptionA research team at Jujin Hospital tests the effects of cosmetics on the human face. To protect themselves against harmful substances they are dressed in aluminum-covered uniforms and masks.
CaptionOmaira Sanchez (12) is trapped in the debris caused by the eruption of Nevado del Ruiz volcano. After sixty hours she eventually lost consciousness and died of a heart attack.
Organization / PublicationNational Geographic / Black Star
CategorySpot News stories
Prize2nd prize
Date00-11-1985
CountryColombia
PlaceArmero
CaptionThe eruption of Nevado del Ruiz volcano caused a massive avalanche of mud. Residents were notified not to be alarmed, but within minutes the town virtually disappeared and over 23,000 died.
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CaptionGuillermo Cardozo is rescued after volcano Nevado del Ruiz erupted on November 13, wiping Armero off the map and killing 23,000. Spotted from a helicopter by a reporter, the exhausted boy was pulled out of the mud.
CaptionLuz Ensueño is rescued from the mud, some hours after volcano Nevado del Ruiz erupted. The eruption caused a massive avalanche of mud, wiping Armero off the map and killing 23,000.
CaptionEaster. As a sovereign state within the city of Rome, Vatican City was only created in 1929, but the Holy See, head of the Roman Catholic Church, has endured longer than any other Western office. Combining the spiritual guidance and temporal management of the world's largest congregation, Pope John Paul II is monarch of Vatican City and Bishop of Rome.
Organization / PublicationDetroit Free Press / Black Star / Life
CategoryPeople in the News stories
Prize1st prize
Date1985
CountrySouth Africa
CaptionBishop Desmond Tutu. In the face of official entrenchment in defense of the system of apartheid, which claimed hundreds of victims in 1985, Bishop Tutu continues the peace-making efforts that brought him the 1984 Nobel Peace Prize.
CaptionVasile Jurca (38), his pregnant wife Ana (39) and their children from Romania plan to settle in Fullerton, California. Half a million new immigrants set foot on American soil at J.F.K. Airport every year. They come mostly not from the Old World, but from the Third World. Together, Mexico and the Philippines account for 100,000 legal immigrants a year.
CaptionGreat men and women of Spain: Espartaco, torero. Fifty years after the start of the civil war and ten years after the death of General Franco, Spain takes its place among the European nations in the Common Market.
Organization / PublicationA Day in the Life / Collins
CategorySports stories
Prize3rd prize
Date1985
CountryJapan
CaptionSumo wrestlers; they face defeat as soon as any part of their body except the soles of their feet touches the ground, or if they fail to keep within the circle.
