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...morning of May 5, some 400 people gathered in a park near Berlin's Alexanderplatz and scattered flowers at the base of the Marx-Engels memorial to commemorate the 173rd birthday of the philosopher who prophesied the ultimate triumph of proletarian revolution. Karl Marx, proclaimed a speaker, should not be blamed for the errors of the former Socialist Unity Party, which for 40 years had ruled East Germany. WE'LL DO BETTER NEXT TIME read a slogan someone had chalked at the base of the memorial. WE'RE NOT GUILTY said another. A third graffito was sardonically realistic...
...team of the 69th Infantry Division, led by Lieut. Albert Kotzebue. Three hours later another patrol, under Lieut. William D. Robertson, came upon a group of Soviet infantrymen near Torgau. Inching out onto the girders of a wrecked bridge over the Elbe, Robertson embraced Lieut. Alexander Silvashko of the 173rd Rifle Regiment...
...concluded last Wednesday, when the Sergeant Major of the Army pleaded guilty to running the "khaki cosa nostra" in Vietnam.) The two most powerful were Colonel Ross Franklin and General John W. Barnes, who became his immediate superiors when he was given command of the 2nd Batallion of the 173rd Air-borne. Herbert shrugged them off, confident that he was safest in sticking to Army regulations...
...said, was that he had accused two superior officers of covering up war crimes. In a formal complaint filed with the Army in September 1970. Herbert accused Major General John W. Barnes and Colonel Joseph Ross Franklin, the commander and deputy commander of his Viet Nam unit, the 173rd Airborne Brigade, with failing to investigate or report incidents of murder, torture and mistreatment of prisoners. Colonel Herbert then became a quite different symbol to the Army. The battle that followed has resulted in one of the most bitter internal disputes in recent Army history...
...about anything to get what I want.'" Three lieutenant colonels requested an appearance on the Dick Cavett Show to refute Herbert's allegations of unfair treatment, and were turned down. One of them, Lieut. Colonel Ken Accousti, former operations officer of the 173rd Airborne Brigade, questioned Herbert's truthfulness: "I got so that I couldn't believe anything Herbert reported from the field. I finally started following him around physically. I never heard anything about war crimes, and they would have filtered...