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  • University Police find answers in 1973 missing student cold case

    05/26/2025 1:22:44 PM PDT · by SunkenCiv · 7 replies
    University of Utah ^ | May 13, 2025 | Amy Choate-Nielsen - Associate Director of Content Creation
    On October 12, 1973, Douglas Brick walked out of his dorm at the U and vanished... his disappearance remained a mystery known only by an ever-shrinking circle of people who knew Brick as a brother, a friend, or a roommate...In 2022, University Police hired a crime data analyst, Nikol Mitchell, who, in her work with Utah's Statewide Information and Analysis Center (SIAC) discovered that the U had a cold case that had been lost for at least 20 years.Major Heather Sturzenegger was the investigations lieutenant at the time...Then, the first glimmer came. They discovered that Brick's sister had called university...
  • Thirty-Six Years Ago Today, Richard Nixon Saved Israel—but Got No Credit

    10/06/2009 7:30:20 AM PDT · by Jbny · 84 replies · 3,761+ views
    Commentary Magazine ^ | October 6th, 2009 | Jason Maoz
    Precise details of what transpired in Washington during the first week of the Yom Kippur War, launched by Egypt and Syria on October 6, 1973, are hard to come by, in no small measure owing to conflicting accounts given by Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and Secretary of Defense James Schlesinger regarding their respective roles. What is clear, from the preponderance of information provided by those directly involved in the unfolding events, is that President Richard Nixon — overriding inter-administration objections and bureaucratic inertia — implemented a breathtaking transfer of arms, code-named Operation Nickel Grass, that over a four-week period...