A WOMAN BATHES HER CHILD, 1999-09-16 (photo)

A Nicaraguan woman bathes her child September 16 in their makeshift home in the ruins left by Managua's 1972 earthqake. In the hemisphere's second-poorest nation behind Haiti, the earthquake debris are home to many of the poorest citizens. The goverment declared a half-day holiday, September 16, to celebrate Nicaragua's possible inclusion in a massive debt-relief program for the world's poorest countries, drawing criticism from some who said the administration of President Arnoldo Aleman was making political propaganda out of the national tragedy of grinding poverty..lo/photo by Oswaldo Rivas REUTERS