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<text id=94TT1809> <title> Dec. 26, 1994: 1994:Images </title> <history> TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1994 Dec. 26, 1994 Man of the Year:Pope John Paul II </history> <article> <source>Time Magazine</source> <hdr> IMAGES 1994, Page 84 </hdr> <body> By Bruce Handy. Designer: Janet Waegel. Picture editor: Jay Colton Researchers: Hannah Bloch, Leslie Dickstein Earthquakes. political upheaval. Incomprehensible acts of violence, sometimes engulfing whole countries. Tabloid spectacle...1994 proved to be a memorable, if occasionally frightening, year for photojournalists. Here, on the following pages, are the year's most compelling news photos--and the often disturbing stories behind them. Earthquake I Shortly after the Northridge earthquake hit Southern California, photographer Ted Soqui was trying to find the site of a trailer-park inferno when he noticed cars driving backward on Interstate 5. "I was amazed that something so big, something we put so much faith in, could collapse," he said. Fortunately, the driver of this Honda survived. "It looked like the fall of the Roman Empire"--photographer Ted Soqui On the Stump It was lonely out there, but not every Democrat fled the embrace of the beleaguered President Clinton. Here, seemingly mired in bunting, he campaigned for Senator Ted Kennedy--who actually won. Whitewater Deputy Treasury Secretary Roger Altman dozed during his interrogation by the Senate Banking Committee over the veracity of his Whitewater testimony. He became a former Deputy Secretary soon after. Earthquake II There was another kind of upheaval as voters gave Republicans control of both houses for the first time in more than a generation. On Election Night, Newt Gingrich, who would become the first Republican Speaker of the House since 1954, celebrated with supporters in Marietta, Georgia. As he took a victory lap, photographer Rob Nelson was swept along by the crowd. "It was like the Republican marines had landed, and General Gingrich was taking charge. You felt the power."--Photographer Rob Nelson Sarajevo Though the U.N. and NATO made a lot of noise, they ultimately managed to do precious little to protect Bosnian civilians, who were targets in their nation's civil war. Photographer Christopher Morris: "This street is where the Serbs were sniping on civilians. The kids were safe because they were behind a building. They were waiting to run across the street when they saw me. The kid had a toy gun, and he started mimicking shooting it. People everywhere send their kids out to play, but in Sarajevo, it's like you're sending them out to play on a superhighway." No Remorse Paul Hill, shortly after his arrest in Pensacola, Florida, for killing the head of an abortion clinic and his escort. Mother's Prayers The nation gawked in anger and disbelief when Susan Smith of Union, South Carolina, confessed to killing her two young sons, ages 3 years and 14 months, after earlier claiming the boys had been abducted in a carjacking. Shortly after her arrest, Jonathan Tedder took this photograph through a window of the York County Detention Center as Smith was being led from a holding cell. "She had no idea that I was taking her picture." Yummy's Funeral The story only got worse: three days after killing a 14-year-old girl in a botched revenge shooting, Chicago gang member Robert ("Yummy") Sandifer, 11, was executed by two teenage confederates. Steve Liss photographed the funeral and found the experience deeply disturbing: "It was embarrassing, to be perfectly blunt. Photographers sticking cameras in the coffin--the whole thing should have been closed to the press. I stayed to the side, but I still felt like I didn't belong there." "Cry if you will, but make up your mind that you will never let your life end like this."--The Rev. Willie James Campbell, admonishing mourners White Bronco Before he was arrested for the murders of his ex-wife and her friend, O.J. Simpson led Los Angeles police on a 45-m.p.h. nationally televised "chase" that especially caught the imagination of Southern Californians. Richard Hartog got into position for this photograph 10 minutes before Simpson's car came into view on the San Diego Freeway. "People were going nuts, waving and yelling, `Go, O.J.!' It was a big party--they had literally parked their cars in the middle of the freeway. It didn't seem like there was a single person questioning their behavior. It was a given that what was going on was acceptable." "Who's O.J.?"--71-year-old woman who later became an alternate juror for the Simpson trial Rwandan Refugee Camp Rwanda was convulsed by some of the most horrific genocidal violence ever seen, with hundreds of thousands, mainly Tutsi, slaughtered by the Hutu-led army and militias. James Nachtwey took this photo at one of the refugee camps in Zaire that quickly filled with desperate Rwandans. At the time, cholera was sweeping the camps; thousands were ultimately killed by the disease. Here the dead are being gathered up by bulldozers for mass burial. Citizen Mandela Much to its delight (for the most part), South Africa underwent what may have been the most orderly revolution in history. "There were such immense crowds, there was such a crush, often you couldn't get a shot," says photographer Louise Gubb, who followed Nelson Mandela on the campaign trail. "Blacks, whites--everyone wanted to see him." Here Mandela was arriving at a Johannesburg hospital to visit the victims of a right-wing bombing. Gubb got the picture by climbing onto the hospital's entrance. Woodstock Redux About 350,000 fans showed up in Saugerties, New York, to mark the 25th anniversary of Woodstock I (as it must now be known) with three more days of peace, music, mud and corporate sponsorship. Michael Lawton took this shot of Woodstock II with a panoramic camera mounted on a 10-ft. pole. Kurt Cobain (1967-1994) Kurt Cobain, singer and songwriter for the group Nirvana, stunned fans with his suicide last April; he's shown here in 1992, mimicking the cover of the band's Nevermind CD, one of the biggest commercial and critical hits of the '90s. The photographer, Kirk Weddle, quickly discovered that the indoorsy Cobain was not much of a swimmer. "I think he liked the idea of the photo a lot more than the actual doing of it. He was not a water kind of guy." "Here we are now, entertain us."--Kurt Cobain, from smells Like Teen Spirit Hope in Haiti Haitians celebrated Jean-Bertrand Aristide's return from three years of exile, his way paved by Jimmy Carter, Colin Powell, Sam Nunn and more than 15,000 American troops. Violence in Haiti Though hailed by most Haitians, the U.S. occupation didn't immediately put an end to ad hoc violence by the nation's thugocracy. Christopher Morris shot this photo in Port-au-Prince in the wake of a clash between pro-Aristide demonstrators and members of the Haitian secret police, known as FRAPH. Said Morris: "The man who was shot was hiding with two Western journalists. The FRAPH people started hitting them with rocks and sticks. Two or three of us jumped on the wall to tell them to leave them alone. We tried to help. At that instant a gunman lunged, firing two shots into his chest--I didn't even know I'd taken a picture." "No help ever came."--Photographer Christopher Morris Olympic Finals Seconds into her long program at the Olympic finals in Lillehammer, Norway, Tonya Harding asked the judges for permission to fix a broken lace and restart her routine. Having been at an earlier competition where Harding had had a problem with a clasp on her costume, photographer Jack Smith had a premonition: "I wanted to be close to the judges in case something happened." He positioned himself accordingly and got this shot. Harding finished eighth and won a role in a B movie. Olympic Trials In Detroit, skater Nancy Kerrigan's knee was clubbed by a man later linked to Harding. Kerrigan ultimately won a silver medal and became America's sweetheart, until she proved cranky at Disney World. "Why me?"--Nancy Kerrigan D-Day redux Battalions of proud but modest veterans hit the beaches of Normandy, along with limelight-loving statesmen, in order to celebrate the 50th anniversary of D-day. Bob Williams, who fought in the original invasion, was one of 40 former paratroopers who participated in a commemorative jump. He had just completed his drop when David Burnett took this photo; Williams was moving quickly to avoid being hit by some 600 other parachutists behind him. Richard Nixon 1913-1994 LIFE photographer Philippe Halsman would often end portrait sessions with a request for his subject to leap into the air. Most complied--including, in this display of relative unselfconsciousness, a young Richard Nixon. Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis 1929-1994 Newlywed hostess Jackie Kennedy posed in 1954 for Orlando Suero. She later wrote him that his were the only pictures in which she didn't look like "something out of a horror movie." "I think that my biggest achievement is that after going through a rather difficult time, I consider myself comparatively sane. I'm very proud of that."--Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis </body> </article> </text>