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Finalist: The New York Times , by Staff

For its comprehensive coverage of Indira Gandhi's assassination and its impact on India's future.

Winners

Prize Winner in International Reporting in 1985:

Josh Friedman, Dennis Bell, and Ozier Muhammad

For their series on the plight of the hungry in Africa. International Reporting

Finalists

Nominated as finalists in International Reporting in 1985:

David Zucchino

For his thorough and elegantly written dispatches from Lebanon.

The Jury

Maxwell McCrohon(Chair)

Executive Vice President and Editor in Chief, United Press International

Edward D. Casey

Executive Editor, The Capital, Annapolis, Md.

Sanders H. LaMont

Executive Editor, Modesto Bee

Angus G. McEachran

Editor, Pittsburgh Press

Roger Tartarian

Professor of Journalism, California State University, Fresno

Winners in International Reporting

Karen Elliott House

For her extraordinary series of interviews with Jordan's King Hussein which correctly anticipated the problems that would confront the Reagan administration's Middle East peace plan.

1985 Prize Winners

Murray Kempton

For witty and insightful reflection on public issues in 1984 and throughout a distinguished career.