Indianapolis

Nearly 70 years after USS Indianapolis tragedy, survivor tells his tale

Just past midnight July 30, 1945, two torpedoes from a Japanese submarine struck the USS Indianapolis with almost 1,200 people aboard.

Dr. Benjamin Hooks: Reaganomics could lead to violence

The executive director of one of the most conservative civil rights organizations — Benjamin Hooks of the NAACP — says President Reagan's domestic policies have been such a disaster that it wouldn't surprise him if they touched off rebellion in the streets of the United States.

Ford, Tanaka stress economy

President Ford, ending for all official purposes a historic state visit to Japan, flew to Osaka Thursday after he and Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka pledged strong efforts toward heading off international economic crisis by establishing an "open and harmonious" system of global cooperation.

'The first thing I'm going to do ...'

The last time Maj. Jay R. Jensen saw his little girl she was a moppet of 10. She has yet to turn 17, but is already married — and Jensen is a grandfather.

Muhammad Ali's verses thrill throng at Yokota

Former heavyweight champion Muhammad Ali told a cheering crowd at Yokota Air Base Sunday that Joe Frazier, when the two meet in a rematch, will become "the first colored satellite."

Rousing welcome greets 20 more returnees at Clark

Twenty American returnees from North Vietnamese captivity landed at this base Sunday night and were given a larger and more rousing welcome than another group, seven times as large, that landed six days before.

Tamer Rod Stewart defies musical fads, still packs the house

It is late as usual for Rod Stewart, a rock star notorious for never making curtain time.