Caption'The guardian angel'. At a hospice, Jerry Cirasuolo prepares food together with Scott Mayfield, an Aids patient. Jerry has made it his vocation to care for Aids patients and help them die with dignity.
CaptionSoldiers close in on a small boy who tries to retrieve a box of food from the CARE Food Depot during the turbulent days which led to the fall of the Duvalier regime in February.
CaptionFollowing demonstrations, a man is stoned by the crowd after being identified as a plain-clothes policeman. The funerals of the victims of political violence are sometimes the scene of more trouble.
CaptionIan Cohen from the North Coast Peace Squad had slipped through numerous police boats and holds on to the bow of USS Destroyer Oldendorf. He held on until he became tired and was arrested by the police. When the Australian navy celebrated its 75th anniversary, visiting war ships capable of carrying nuclear arms became the target of anti-nuclear protestors.
CaptionNobel Peace Prize winner, nuclear physicist Andrei Sakharov arrives at Jaroslavsky Railway Terminal in Moscow, where he is mobbed by the media. After seven years' exile in Gorky, during which his outside contacts were strictly controlled, Sakharov was allowed to return to Moscow.
Organization / PublicationDetroit Free Press / Black Star
CategoryPeople in the News
Prize3rd prize
Date1986
CountrySouth Africa
PlaceSoweto
CaptionWinnie Mandela peers through the bars of the fence surrounding her home. Her husband, Nelson Mandela, has been in prison for the last 24 years for his Anti-Apartheid leadership rule in the African National Congress.
CaptionThe referee tries to break up a fight between the Lakers' Mitch Kupchak and the Rockets' Akeem Olajuwon during the NBA play-offs. Both players were ejected from the game.
CaptionMike Tyson knocks out Joe Frazier's son Marvis, in the first thirty seconds of the first round during a heavy weight boxing match. Tyson has since become world champion.
CaptionSkaters approach Leeuwarden, the capital of Friesland province, towards the end of the 200km skating competition on natural ice. After 22 years of no Eleven Cities race held, low temperatures allowed the competition to be held for the second consecutive winter.
CaptionA photographer shows how he feels about East German police during demonstrations at Checkpoint Charlie on the 25th anniversary of the construction of the Berlin Wall. The white line marks the border between East and West Berlin.
CaptionEnglish bobbies form a human barrier during demonstrations. When press magnate Rupert Murdoch moved some of his newspapers to a new printing plant in the East End of London, the unions refused to accept the new location, which led to the dismissal of 5,000 workers.
CaptionThe revolutionary design of Voyager enabled its crew to fly the plane 41,843km around the world without landing or refueling. Pilots Rutan and Yeager were back home just in time for Christmas.
CaptionA monitor lizard takes a stroll along the beach. Also known as Komodo dragons, after the Indonesian island where most of them live, the species was only discovered in 1912. They grow up to three meters long and feed on goats and pigs, but their numbers have dwindled to less than 2,000.
CaptionPolicemen take a rest while they can. Later that day, they came to blows with demonstrators for the opposition party.
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CaptionViolent clashes between militant students and heavily armed police. The opposition under Kim Young joined forces with the students in calling for democratic reform by organizing demonstrations against the government of President Chun Doo Hwan.
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CaptionBenazir Bhutto's 'caravan for change' gains momentum as she travels around Pakistan. A rapturous welcome awaited Bhutto, leader of the Pakistan People's Party and daughter of the former Prime minister, when she returned to her country from voluntary exile in April.
CaptionTamil guerillas being trained. Sri Lanka is the scene of a bitter struggle between the Sinhalese, the major ethnic group, and the Tamil minority.
CaptionGymnast Kristie Philips is scolded by Karolyi after a bad vault. She's considered one of America's best bets for the gold medal in the 1988 Olympics. Under the tutorship of noted coach Bela Karolyi, Philips is being hailed as the next Mary Lou Retton.
CaptionVladimir Horowitz shares a laugh with Nancy Reagan moments before Mrs. Reagan topples off the stage. Horowitz had just completed a piano recital in the East Room of The White House for the President and Mrs. Reagan and their guests.
CaptionThe Old Harbor with architect Piet Blom's 'Blaaktoren', nicknamed 'Het Potlood' (The Pencil) and 'Witte Huis' (White House), one of the few buildings which survived the war. The center of Rotterdam was razed to the ground by German bombs on May 14, 1940. Tragic though the air raid was, it provided modern architects with a rare opportunity to realize their daring designs.
CaptionTo avoid disappointing the thousands of tourists who flock to Volgograd to see the monument, experienced mountaineers are engaged for its restoration in order to eliminate the need for scaffolding. Entitled 'The motherland calls', the 101-metre-high concrete memorial commemorates the Soviet soldiers who died in the battle of Stalingrad (now Volgograd).
