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Daniel talks to Army historian Bill Hammond about 24th infantry regiment, an all-black regiment that fought during the Korean war. Recently, the army has re-written the history of the regiment.

AS CEREMONIES GET UNDERWAY COMMEMORATING THE JAPANESE SURRENDER TO ALLIED FORCES FIFTY YEARS AGO, NPR'S NEAL CONAN REPORTS ON THE HATREDS THAT FUEELED THE WAR IN THE PACIFIC. PROFESSOR JOHN W. DOWER, THE HENRY LUCE PROFESSOR OF INTERNATIONAL CO-OPERATION AT THE MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY SAYS THAT ATROCITIES COMMITTED BY BOTH SIDES CREATED A VICIOUS CYCLE. (PROFESSOR DOWER'S BOOK "WAR WITHOUT MERCY: RACE AND POWER IN THE PACIFIC WAR" IS PUBLISHED BY PANTHEON) WE ALSO HEAR EXERPTS FROM GENERAL DOUGLAS MacARTHUR'S SPEECH AT THE SURRENDER CEREMONY IN TOKYO BAY.

STAMBERG/FREBERG: HUMORIST STAN FREBERG (FREE-berg) WILL BE INDUCTED INTO CHICAGO'S RADIO HALL OF FAME. WE'LL PLAY A BIT FROM ONE OF HIS OLD ROUTINES.

EERO MAENTYRANTA (EE-roh MEAN-tah-rahn-tah), ONE OF FINLAND'S MOST FAMOUS MEDAL WINNERS IN THE 1960'S IN THE SPORT OF CROSS COUNTRY SKIING, WAS ACCUSED OF "BLOOD DOPING" BECAUSE OF THE PRESENCE OF ABOUT 20% MORE RED BLOOD CELLS IN HIS SYSTEM. RESEARCHERS HAVE NOW IDENTIFIED THE GENETIC MUTATION WHICH INCREASES THE RED BLOOD CELLS IN HIS AND MANY OF HIS RELATIVES' BLOOD, AND HAVE COMPLETELY CLEARED HIM. HOST SUSAN STAMBERG SPEAKS WITH HIM, WITH THE ASSISTANCE OF MARIA GUERCIN (GU-erh-sin) OF THE FINNISH EMBASSY HERE IN WASHINGTON, D.C., WHO INTERPRETS.

ALTHOUGH DENVER INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT IS RUNNING FAIRLY SMOOTHLY NOW, ITS ROCKY BEGINNING HAS TAKEN ITS TOLL. MARK ROBERTS REPORTS FROM DENVER THAT A SMALL AIRPORT IN COLORADO SPRINGS IS ATTEMPTING TO GIVE THE DENVER AIRPORT A RUN FOR ITS COMPETITIVE MONEY AND THAT EVEN DENVER RESIDENTS ARE FINDING THE SMALL AIRPORT MORE APPEALING THAN THEIR OWN.

Daniel talks to Canadian Health Minister Diane Marleau about the Canadian policies to restrict tobacco advertising. The Canadian government requires large health warnings on each package of cigarettes, imposes high taxes on cigarettes, and bans tobacco advertising. Marleau says that results are mixed... tobacco companies try to get around the advertising restrictions, people travel to the U.S. to buy cheaper cigarettes, and studies about the effectivness of the ban in reducing smoking do not show definitively that smoking among young people has declined.

A sound montage of a few prominent voices in the news this ast week, including U-S Attoney General Janet Reno, Rep. Jim Leach (R-Iowa), ep. Barney Frank (D-Mass), President Bill Clinton, the late Mickey Mantle, and usic from the late singer/songwriter Jerry Garcia, founder of band the Grateful ead.

Affirmative Action has taken some hard hits n California this past year. NPR's Richard Gonzales reports that the chancellor t the Univeristy of California at Berkeley is currently developing a igh-profile outreach campaign for the next generation of minority students

In her continuing series of "post-war postcards", essayist Alice urlaud (FUR-low) talks to an American serviceman who describes the inner onflicts he dealt with as he guarded German prisoners of war.

NPR'S JOHN BURNETT REPORTS THAT THERE MIGHT BE SOME HOPE OF RELIEVING THE AGRICULTURAL AND ECOLOGICAL SCOURGE OF THE SOUTH AMERICAN FIRE ANT IN THE SOUTHERN UNITED STATES.