Landais, Benoit

Hanspeter Born is a Swiss investigative reporter and author. As chief foreign correspondent for the Zurich Weltwoche he covered major stories like the downfall of Ferdinand Marcos, the civil war in Nicaragua, the fall of the Berlin wall, the wars in former Yugoslavia and the American presidential campaigns since 1980. In the book Fur die Richtigkeit Kurt Waldheim examined the former UN-secretary general's wartime past (Schneekluth, 1987). Born's account of a Swiss murder case Mord in Kehrsatz (ABC-Weltwoche Verlag1989) led to a retrial and made it to the top of the Swiss Bestseller List. With