World Scene 1998
Photo A/B/C: Devastation
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DEVASTATION: A starving Sudanese boy cries inside a compound run by Doctors Without Frontiers in Ajiep in the famine-torn Bahr el Ghazal province in south Sudan (photo above). An aerial view of destroyed buildings in Nairobi after two car bombs exploded, targeted at the nearby U.S. embassy. At least 80 people were killed in the attack in August (below left photo). Baghdad on fire after U.S.-led air strikes in November to punish Iraq for refusing to cooperate with a UN team to inspect its weapons facilities (photo below).
Photo D/E: Hope
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HOPE: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu shakes hand with Palestinian President Yasser Arafat, witnessed by U.S. President Bill Clinton and King Hussein of Jordan, after a breakthrough agreement over the future of the West Bank was reached in Washington in October (left photo). Buddhist monks march and pray for a peaceful election at the Independence monument in Phnom Penh in July. The Cambodian People's Party won the election, and agreed in November to share power with the opposition royalist forces under Prince Norodom Ranariddh (photo below).
Photo F/G: Upheaval
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UPHEAVAL: A Salvadoran soldier carries a woman during an evacuation from a flood-stricken area in the village of Chilanguera, east of San Salvador. Hurricane Mitch killed 11,000 people in South America in November (photo above). Kosovar refugees (right), carrying their few belongings, arrive on Albanian soil after crossing a mountainous area in June. The escalation of violence with Serb forces displaced many people in Kosovo.
Photo H/I/J/K/L: Newsmakers
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FACE VALUE: Among the top newsmakers of the year were Gerhard Schroeder, the new German prime minister; deposed Malaysian deputy prime minister Anwar Ibrahim, who is being tried on charges of sexual misconduct; former White House intern Monica Lewinsky, who confessed to an affair with President Bill Clinton; Ohio Senator John Glenn, making his second trip into space at the age of 77; and former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet, arrested while undergoing medical treatment in London on request of Spanish government which is charging him with murder, torture and genocide.