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Were Iraqi Shi'ites really an Iranian fifth column, all this might be cold comfort. But the truth is more complicated. Though many Sunnis won't admit it, Iraqi nationalism runs deep among their long-repressed countrymen. As historian Reidar Visser has observed, Iraq's Shi'ites have never launched a broad-based movement to secede. When Baghdad and Tehran went to war in the 1980s, Iraq's Shi'ite soldiers fought fiercely, especially after Iranian forces crossed onto Iraqi soil. It's true that one major Shi'ite party, Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's Dawa, took refuge...
...DIED. Reidar Sognnaes, 72, a pioneer of forensic dentistry, the founding dean of UCLA's school of dentistry, and the man who in the early '70s confirmed the deaths of Adolf Hitler and Martin Bormann by comparing dental remains with existing X rays; of a heart attack; in Thousand Oaks, Calif. The Norwegian-born Sognnaes also disproved the theory that George Washington wore wooden teeth, demonstrating that his dentures were probably made of cattle, hippopotamus, elephant and walrus teeth...
Vice Admiral Reidar Godoe, chief of staff for the joint command outside the Norwegian capital, called the incident "very regrettable." But, he added, "this is the kind of accident that can well happen with the amount of mail the military sends out every day." Godoe insisted that no classified material was ever sent to the East Germans, because secret documents are always hand-delivered by messenger. He professed not to know, however, whether the address list was used for registered mail, which sometimes contains confidential and restricted information. Nonetheless, the Chief of Defense issued a command to all units last...
...REIDAR F. SOGNNAES, D.M.D. Los Angeles...
Monroe Engel '42, novelist and literary critic, and Ulf Goran Reidar Printz-Pahlson, Swedish critic and poet, were appointed as lecturers in the University...