CaptionA mother clings to a riot policeman's shield at a polling station. Her son was one of thousands of demonstrators arrested because they tried to prove that the presidential election on December 15, which was won by the government candidate, had been rigged.
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CaptionVictims of Thalidomide (Softenon) have learnt to live with their disability. In the 1960s Thalidomide was given as a 'wonder drug' to many pregnant British women, subsequently their children were born seriously disabled.
CaptionSuffocated in the cellar of their home during a bombing by the Soviet trained Afghan Air Force, the bodies of a woman and her two children are huddled together. They were victims of the guerilla war which continued in Afghanistan.
CaptionA mother clings to a riot policeman's shield at a polling station. Her son was one of thousands of demonstrators who were arrested because they tried to prove that the presidential election on December 15, won by the government candidate, had been rigged.
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CaptionDuring riots a demonstrator at a school campus attacks riot police with an iron bar. The police tried to protect themselves from the stones thrown at them by angry students with a net. The day's protest followed a memorial service for a university student Lee Han-yol who was killed by 'fragments of a tear gas bomb'.
Organization / PublicationUnited Press International
CategoryNews Features
Prize1st prize
Date08-12-1987
CountryUSA
PlaceWashington DC
CaptionUS President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev reach out to shake hands at the White House after signing the nuclear arms reduction treaty to eliminate medium- and short-range nuclear missiles in Europe and Asia.
CaptionA little girl hides from riot police, covering her face against tear gas fumes. Demonstrations against the six-year rule of President Chun Doo Hwan made the streets of Seoul erupt in a frenzy of violence.
CaptionThe Herald of Free Enterprise, a British ferry on its way to Great Britain, capsized shortly after leaving the harbor of Zeebrugge. About 200 passengers perished, and it took many weeks to salvage the ship.
CaptionMatias Rust (left), the West German amateur pilot who astonished the world by landing his Cessna in Red Square in May, has lunch at the court where he is standing trial. Rust (19) was sentenced to four years in a re-education camp.
CaptionHaiti's junta leader General Namphy wipes his face at an Army Day celebration shortly before the ill-fated presidential elections, which had to be postponed. Although Namphy had pledged to safeguard the election, soldiers were seen participating in the reign of terror in the streets of Port-au-Prince.
CaptionRoh Tae Woo exercises on a weight machine at a health club. The official government candidate for president, General Woo beat the divided opposition in the December election.
CaptionKlaus Barbie, known as the 'butcher of Lyon', received a life sentence for Nazi war crimes. After the initial three days Barbie (74) refused to be present at his own trial. The former Gestapo head was finally brought to justice four years after being expelled from Bolivia.
CaptionThe Stars and Stripes on its way to victory in the America's Cup. Skipper Dennis Conner, who was narrowly beaten in 1983, left no room for doubt as to his seamanship: he scored four consecutive wins in the 'best of seven' races.
CaptionOn the set of a silent film written by English comedian Eric Sykes, who also played one of the pallbearers (second from left). The rain comes out of hose-pipes - the scene was shot on a cloudless summer day.
CaptionA follower of Dr. Igor Charkovsky putting his revolutionary ideas about water therapy for children into practice. Charkovsky also worked out a method for underwater childbirth.
CaptionA good time was had by all when US President Ronald Reagan visited Fairview Elementary School in Columbia, Missouri, during his tour of the country.
CaptionAmidst a tangle of wires Dr. Zbigniew Religa anxiously watches a monitor to see how his patient responds after a heart transplant. He has just completed the second of two transplants in 21 hours.
Organization / PublicationLiverpool Daily Post & Echo
CategoryScience & Technology
Prize3rd prize
Date1987
CountryUnited Kingdom
PlaceLiverpool
CaptionFive-month-old baby Edward lies motionless after an open heart operation at the Royal Liverpool Children's Hospital. He was allowed to leave the hospital a week later, but will need further surgery in the future.
CaptionNear Whittier, a narrow cloud of dust bursts from a fault line in the earth's crust. Registering 6.1 on the Richter scale, the earthquake struck fear into people's hearts and left a trail of destruction.
CaptionA hopeless attempt to scare away a cloud of more than a million starlings. The birds invaded the village every afternoon, until the situation became untenable and they had to be destroyed.
CaptionCharles Dion has little hope of ever improving his lot. Twenty years ago, the rising new black middle class moved away from the eruption of violence in America's inner cities, leaving many people, such as Dion, behind.
CaptionAt a mud brick house a Catholic priest administers the last rites to a dying Aids patient whose wife, by his side, also has the disease and has only months to live.
Organization / PublicationA Day in the Life of the Soviet Union / Collins
CategoryDaily Life
PrizeHonorable mention
Date1987
CountrySoviet Union
CaptionInside a mobile cabin covered with fabric, two Nganasan hunters share an enormous fish and some private humor. Their mask-like suntans are the result of many hours of exposure to the glaring snow.
Organization / PublicationA Day in the Life of the Soviet Union / Collins
CategoryDaily Life
PrizeHonorable mention
Date1987
CountrySoviet Union
PlaceMinsk
CaptionThe director and head engineer at the Fine Cloth Combine answer questions and take notes during a 'Letuchka', an unscheduled meeting where workers can voice their complaints.
CaptionDuring weeks of anti-government clashes, police and students confronted each other all over the city, but other citizens too frequently found themselves trapped by the violence as tear gas filled the streets.
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CaptionDays before the scheduled election, a group of vigilantes capture and execute a member of the Tonton Macoute secret police. As passers-by looked on, they killed him with knives and machetes and then covered the body with the wood and tires that were to be his funeral pyre.
CaptionConvicted of bribery and due to be sentenced to federal court, State Treasurer Robert Budd Dwyer shoots himself in front of photographers at a news conference at his office.
CaptionA football match between FC Den Haag and Ajax Amsterdam took a grim turn when riots broke out in the stands. Twenty-five supporters were injured, and the referee decided to abandon the match at half-time.
Organization / PublicationContact Press Images for La República
CategoryNews Features stories
Prize1st prize
CountryBrazil
PlaceRio de Janeiro state
CaptionJust 30km from the center of Rio de Janeiro three million people live in La Baiada Fluminense, an area the United Nations considers the most violent in the world. This is the hunting ground of death squads, also known as vigilantes, who can be hired to kill rivals and criminals. Displaying mutilated bodies is their trademark, and unofficially they are known to consist of off-duty policemen. When they started operating some decades ago, the squads relieved the overloaded legal system, but today they operate indiscriminately. Between March and August they killed 1,200 people.
CaptionImpressions of Black Monday. As the day progressed, the Dow Jones index fell by 22.6 per cent, causing panic among brokers and investors alike. It was the worst crash in Wall Street since 1929.
CaptionOn the road during her electoral campaign before the British general election in June, Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher demonstrates the use of a breathalyzer tube. The campaigning had the desired effect - her Conservative Party won the election with 43 per cent of the vote, only slightly less than four years ago.
CaptionDeng Xiaoping with his wife and grandson. After tendering his resignation from the Communist Party's Central Committee and the Politburo in October, Deng Xiaoping finally has time for family life and private pleasures.
CaptionThe spectacular recovery of the Soviet Union's gymnastics World Champion, Dimitry Belozerchev, after a serious car accident. While his leg was still in a plaster cast, he started training again and two years later regained his title.
CaptionArtists Laura de Nercy and Bruno Dizien recreate their choreography 'The Knee Hollow', with a fully equipped bathroom suspended as decor on a vertical rock face. A cableway was used to transport sections of the set, which was installed by a 25-strong team halfway up the 500m gorge.
CaptionJanuary - June. Quintuplets were born three months prematurely at a clinic, weighing less than a kilo at birth. The two male infants died, but the three girls survived the first difficult months.
CaptionAfter undergoing a bone marrow transplant, Marcel (5) has to spend two weeks in a sterile tent, because the operation had left him defenseless against infection. Direct body contact, even with his mother (pictured here), was strictly prohibited.
