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A portion of the 356 flags raised in honor of each day the U.S. hostages have been held in Iran wave in a stiff breeze recently at the Hillcrest Memorial cemetery in Hermitage, PA. New hope for the hostage's freedom has arisen from new developments…

A charred body with a helmet lies beside wreckage of a helicopter. Five bodies have been recovered from the wreckage of American aircraft in the Iranian desert of Dasht-E-Kavir. An American force attempted a rescue of the 50 U.S. hostages being…

The blood of a Salvadoran, killed in rioting during the funeral of Archbishop Romero, flows downhill from where he fell Sunday in San Salvador. At least 40 died.

Pablo Bellon, a Flathead Indian living in Bozeman, Mt, donned a traditional costume to dance at a local powwow.

I'm just an ol' wild one. You can't tame me. It's been tried, says M.H. Mason, known by his friends as 'Ol' Bluegill.' A 77-year-old Cherokee Indian, Bluegill lives outdoors on a canal bank in Canal Point, Florida and spends most of his days…

Navajo medicine man Grey Squirrel initiates the rain prayer ceremony with a sand painting of water boy and water girl.

This Navajo medicine man sand-painted his prayer for rain. During the summer of 1980, about all that was left to do in some parts of the US was pray for a break from the drought.

Jerry Lacapa, a Hopi Indian, carves Kachina dolls to be given to Hopi children. These dolls are also collected by many as an example of southwest Indian art.

Caught between two worlds, Indian children today face a multitude of problems on American reservations. This Sioux child is the picture of irony, Indian face, cowboy hat, football jersey.

Proud with the symbols of two cultures, this medicine man's assistant cruises the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota.