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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.

The Maldives are a group of islands in the Indian Ocean. They've got a problem. Due to global warming, the waters around the Maldives are rising, and within 50 years, the islands may no longer exist, sunk, as it were, underneath the ocean. Eric Weiner visited the Maldives and prepared this report.

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.

The United Nations women's conference in China begins tomorrow. NPR's Marykay Magistead spoke with officials on the American delegation to the conference and has this report.

SIMON/LETTERS: SCOTT SIMON READS SOME LETTERS FROM OUR LISTENERS.

SCOTT SIMON AND WEEKEND EDITION ENTERTAINMENT CRITIC ELVIS MITCHELL AND JOE NOCERA, WEEKEND EDITION'S BUSINESS ANALYST, HAVE A DISCUSSION ABOUT CURRENT NETWORK MERGERS...THE DISNEY COMPANY'S PURCHASE OF CAPITAL CITIES/ABC, WESTINGHOUSE'S PURCHASE OF CBS, AND THIS WEEK POSSIBLE MERGER. TIME-WARNER INC. MAY BE BUYING TED TURNER'S TURNER BROADCASTING SYSTEMS.

TOMORROW, THE ORIGINAL PROTOTYPE TUCKER TORPEDO, OR "THE TIN GOOSE," DUBBED THE CAR OF THE FUTURE SHORTLY AFTER WORLD WAR TWO, WILL BE AUCTIONED FOR THE FIRST TIME AT THE 25TH ANNUAL AUBURN COLLECTOR CAR SHOW AND AUCTION IN AUBURN, INDIANA. SCOTT SIMON TALKS WITH JOHN LEMMO, THE OWNER OF THE CAR WHO FOUND THE PROTOTYPE RUSTING AWAY BEHIND A BARN 25 YEARS AGO.

SCOTT SIMON TALKS WITH INTERNATIONALLY SYNDICATED CHESS COLUMNIST SHELBY LYMAN ABOUT THE THIS WEEK'S START OF THE PROFESSIONAL CHESS ASSOCIATION WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP...PITTING 32-YEAR-OLD RUSSIAN GARY KASPAROV AGAINST 25-YEAR-OLD CHALLENGER VISWANATHAN ANAND (vis-WHAN-a-thon UH-NAND) FROM INDIA.