Word: kosters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...midmorning, Major General Samuel W. Koster, commanding general of the Americal Division, had enough information to have taken the necessary steps to stop the carnage. According to the report, when Koster learned that there were six to eight dead civilians in the area, he should have ordered a prompt investigation and taken "strong positive action to prevent any further killing...
...Instead, Koster, one of the promising young combat generals in the Army -he was then only 48-became a key figure in a massive attempt to cover up the slaughter. When the story of My Lai broke, Koster was super intendent of West Point, often a steppingstone on the way up to the higher echelons of the Army. He resigned from his post and, after an investigation, was censured and reduced to brigadier general. He later retired from the Army...
...banks of the Illinois River was strewn with old Indian arrowheads and pottery shards, Northwestern University Archaeologist Stuart Struever decided to do a little spadework, hoping to unearth an ancient Indian settlement. What he found exceeded his wildest expectations. The plot, owned by a farmer named Theodore Koster, may well hold some of the most important archaeological remains ever discovered in North America...
Excavating steadily for the past five summers in Koster's cornfield, which is 45 miles north of St. Louis, Struever's team has dug up the remnants of at least 15 separate prehistoric settlements. Stacked atop each other in easily distinguishable layers-or horizons, as archaeologists call them-the individual settlements were in remarkably good condition. They had been so well preserved by covers of protective dust, which blew down from nearby bluffs after they were abandoned, that they can be "read" by archaeologists like pages of a history book. The oldest layer dates back some...
Providence's top mall. Bill Speck, graduated last year, but number two man Tom Smith is back, as are junior Dennis Swart and sophomore Mike Koster. As additional contender is soph Brian Farley, who gave Harvard's Jim Keefe a lough fight in Keefe's individual win during last year's freshman contest...