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rescue workers struggle to keep Cassandra Gomez from falling into rushing waters caused by Hurricane Hortense in Puerto Rico, September 11, 1996.

Hostage (center) tries to talk murder suspect out of shooting himself. After a a scuffle, police captured suspect and hostage was unharmed.

A woman mourns next to a rose she placed in the sand at Smith Point Beach in Fire Island, NY, July 26, 1996, after losing friends in the TWA crash of flight 800.

Residents of the West Bank town of Habla react to the injuries of a fellow Palestinian who was shot in the head during a protest over land hey claimed was annexed to the neighboring Jewish tlement of Mattan.

A knife ends a struggle on Haitian street. After the funeral for a beloved community leader who was killed by a band of thieves, a mourner identifies this man as one of them. The crowd grabbed him and began beating him. The neighborhood vigilante…

Ellistine Gaines grieves for her 73-yar-old grandfather, killed by Miami police in a fusillade of bullets during a drug raid. No drug were found.

Det. Raoul Rapneth applies force to drug suspect who sold crack to the undercover officer minutes before the arrest was made.

Police Officer Elaine King searches a man's shoe after seizing a five-gallon bucket with a marijuana plant from his house.

A Venezuelan National Guardsman runs from congress after he was struck by a Molotov cocktail in Caracas, Venezuela, Oct. 29, 1996, during a student protest demanding more money for universities.

Steven Burch jams a cocked pistol into clerk Pamela Hinkle's neck after taking her hostage at a local grocery store.