Conrad Black Rails Against Ex-Friends Kissinger, Buckley In <em>NY Sun</em> Column

For two years, I have avoided mention in this column of my legal travails, and only vary that this week, in matters already on the public record, at the request of the commissioning editor. Throughout these five challenging years, most people whom my wife Barbara and I really considered to be friends have behaved as friends.

My late father, who died more than 30 years ago, and was a very intelligent man, if somewhat eccentric in his later years, admired William F. Buckley and Henry Kissinger more than any other living Americans. It has been a particular honour to have had those men as friends for more than 20 years now. They have both referred to our relations in those terms publicly many times, and Dr. Kissinger did so under oath early in these baneful proceedings. I am often asked about my current relations with them, in particular.

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