From the Archives

Television personality Hugh Downs went to the roof of a Tokyo department store Saturday to do one of the last shows on his nine-year "Today" program, firmly denying that he is giving up the video screen for good.

American and Communist delegates met at Panmunjom again Wednesday as the world awaited news on the Pueblo seizure.

Defense Secretary Dick Cheney wound up a two-week visit to Asia by watching a thunderous jetfighter drill here Saturday — and stocking up on Girl Scout cookies and peanuts from the commissary before his long flight home.

The first woman general in the 196-year history of the U.S. Army, Brig. Gen. Anna M. Hays, chief of the Army Nurse Corps, said Tuesday that it was wrong to compare her job to that of a division commander because she functions purely in a staff position despite the fact that she has roughly 21,000 people under her supervision.

To hear Jimmy Doolittle tell it, his fabled raid on Tokyo was as much quixotic as heroic, a pinprick thrust in which only slight damage was inflicted on the enemy and the real target could not even be seen.

Even an agreement can spawn disagreement when it comes to the Korean nightlife businesses that rely on American troops for a sizeable portion of their income.