The Nation - News from Sept. 28, 1989

Former Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger has been ordered to appear in federal court in Chicago to testify in a multimillion-dollar libel suit brought against Pulitzer Prize-winning author Seymour Hersh. U.S. District Judge Charles R. Norgle, in ordering Kissinger to testify in court Monday, rejected an agreement worked out between lawyers for Kissinger and former Indian Prime Minister Morarji Desai that would have allowed the former secretary of state to put his testimony off until Oct. 5. Hersh is the subject of a $100-million libel suit filed by Desai, who contends Hersh wrongly named him as a CIA informant in his book, “The Price of Power: Kissinger in the Nixon White House.”