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Before the 15-hour sale ended, some bidders had grown grouchy as they saw the cost of the prize soar. "They sounded as if they had low blood sugar, and I offered to send them sandwiches," recalls Webb. For the winner, Elaine Koster, 37, editor in chief and publisher of New American Library, the problem was breathable air. The cooling system in her office overlooking a gaudy flank of the Americana Hotel had been shut off. At 8 p.m. she retreated to her more comfortable West Side apartment for the final and triumphant round...
...Angry Nurses. Two nurses, Sandra Kramer and Valerie Koster, found foul conditions at the Public Health Service Indian Hospital in Shiprock, N. Mex., where they began working in September 1974. They complained to superiors and finally wrote an open letter to President Ford, an action that received considerable local publicity. "The focus here," they said, "is on filling out forms, doing the least work with the least effort and just getting by." The Indian Health Service fired the nurses in January 1975 for "lack ... [of] ability or ... desire to become a responsible employee of the IHS." Public pressure forced...
...that West Point graduates had not hesitated to lie in Viet Nam-falsifying body counts, concealing the bombing of Cambodia, covering up My Lai. Indeed the commander of the Americal Division, which included the platoon led by Lieut. William Galley at My Lai, was headed by Major General Samuel Koster, who became superintendent of West Point in 1968. Two years later, Koster resigned after he was accused of taking part in the campaign to cover up the facts about the massacre at My Lai. Koster was demoted, censured and retired in disgrace...
...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...