Word: kosters
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...massacre. At one point, 25 men were accused on various counts. Now the score stands at two acquittals of enlisted men, no convictions and just five officers still facing legal proceedings. Last week the Army dropped charges against the highest-ranking officer involved, Major General Samuel Koster, former superintendent of West Point...
...Koster was the commander of the Army's Americal Division at the time that one of its companies attacked the village of My Lai. He was described by a top-level investigating team headed by Lieut. General William Peers as helping "either wittingly or unwittingly" to keep information of the "tragedy" from being conveyed to higher authorities...
Honorable Career. But last week the Army said that it had found no evidence to support five of the seven specific allegations against Koster. There was "some evidence" to support the other two: that the commander failed to report the civilian casualties he knew about and that he did not "ensure a proper and thorough initial investigation." Lieut. General Jonathan Seaman, commanding general of the First Army at Fort Meade, Md., decided to drop the case. His reasons were that Koster had had a "long and honorable career," and that there was no evidence of any "intentional abrogation of responsibilities...
Seaman ruled that Koster had apparently believed information provided by subordinates that only 20 civilians had died in "an unfortunate" combat incident. Actually, there was no resistance from the villagers, and up to 500 of them died in the shooting...
...students-Leslie W. Mullins '72 and Stephen Koster '71-have already submitted their candidacies. Neither could be reached for comment last night...