
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.
Redford takes new direction
Film superstar Robert Redford says he plans to fade to black as an actor and become the unseen man behind the camera.
Ali 'whups' it up in Tokyo
World heavyweight champion Muhammad Ali predicted Wednesday he will "destroy" Antonio Inoki, 6 feet 4 inches of gangling, rawboned grappler, because Inoki talks too much and must be "whupped like a daddy whups his son."
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.
SFC, wounded 9 Times, wants 3rd Korean tour
Fifteen years of Army service and a chestful of decorations, including the nation's second highest award, hasn't satisfied SFC Charles E. Ashton's appetite for a good scrap.
Cartoonist Silverstein called Stripes his catapult to success
Shel Silverstein, Playboy cartoonist, author and composer, served as a draftee on the staff of Pacific Stars and Stripes in the mid-1950s and said it was the catapult that launched him success and wealth.
History proves war foes' folly, says novelist Webb
Novelist James Webb, whose highly acclaimed "Fields of Fire" refused to apologize for U.S. actions in Vietnam, says history has proven that America's anti-war activists were wrong.