Scathing on Thin Ice.(Review)

From: The National Interest | Date: September 22, 2001| Author: Jonas, George | Copyright information

Christopher Hitchens, The Trial of Henry Kissinger (New York: Verso, 2001), 160 pp., $22.

ON MAY 29, 2001, French officials appeared at the Ritz Hotel in Paris with a summons for former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger. It was issued by an examining magistrate at the request of William Bourdon, a lawyer representing the families of several French nationals who allegedly disappeared in General Augusto Pinochet's Chile. Maitre Bourdon wanted Dr. Kissinger to appear ...

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