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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.

Weinberger greets GIs, rips politicians

Clad in an Army field jacket, Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger on Wednesday praised the vigilance of U.S. servicemembers and criticized politicians who favor cutting defense spending.

'Ski-nosed Santa' is back in Southeast Asia for laughs

BOB HOPE, the ski-nosed Santa Claus who saves all of his goodies for American troops serving in the war zones, "tooled up" his sleigh and began winging across the sky yesterday on his way to Southeast Asia.

Three operations kill 2,000 VC

Allied forces in the Republic of Vietnam Monday wound up two major operations and were expecting to end another. Enemy deaths were expected to total more than 2,000.

Two million welcome Johnson in Seoul

President and Mrs. Johnson got a rousing Texas-style welcome here Monday.

U.S., South Korea deliberate Yongsan Garrison move

Once again, as they have for years, the U.S. military and South Korea are talking about the massive task of packing up and moving two major American commands.

U.S. study in '70s explored using nukes against N. Korea

At the same time the Carter administration was mulling options to pull U.S. forces from South Korea in the late 1970s, U.S. officials were studying the use of nuclear weapons to repel a possible North Korean invasion, recently unclassified documents show.