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Two Nicaraguan boys admire a tank on display during a military parade in Managua during May Day celebrations.

Two Sandinista soldiers hold their babies while they wait for government vehicles to take them back to their army camp near Matagalpa. It was a short visit as there was heavy fighting in the area.

A young girl appears frightened as she peers from the window of a building in a resettlement camp. She was moved from her home in northern Nicaragua because of heavy fighting.

Twelve-year-old Leonzo Dianarto, a member of the Contras, holds a soviet-made AK-47 taken from Sandinista troops in an earlier battle. Dianarto lives in a Contra camp in Nicaragua, jsut north of the Costa Rican border.

Cory Aquino appears tense as she reflects in her home. Although she won the election, her political future and the country's stability are uncertain.

Voters carrying ballot boxes cheer as they march toward election headquarters to turn over the ballots. Earlier, government troops had tried to seize the ballots at a local precinct. The voters efforts were in vain as election officials later changed…

Homeless people sleep in the streets in Manila. Many poor people pinned their hopes on Cory Aquino hoping the government's funds would be more evenly distributed under a democracy so it was ironic Marcos posters were plastered above the place they…

An effigy of Marcos burns in front of the presidential palace as pre-election tension builds.

A government soldier sobs after hearing that three of his friends were killed in battle on foot patrol near by.

A group of Philippine Army soldiers were startled when they heard what they thought were approaching enemy soldiers during foot patrol on Mindanao.