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...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...
...high officers of the Americal, the fear that publicizing the deaths of women and children at My Lai would ruin their careers stimulated them to stay silent. When Colonel Henderson asked General Koster, commander of the Americal, why the general had countermanded the colonel's order to have troops return to count bodies during the afternoon of the day of the killings, Koster answered that he did not think it was so important to find out how the "twenty" died. The number was actually between...
Typical of the coziness among high-ranking officers in the army was the pardoning of General Koster by General Seaman, the commander at Fort Meade, Maryland. Seaman's pardon forgave Koster on the basis of the "fact" that everything Koster had done, including not reporting the massacre to his superiors, was "understandable" given the circumstances...