Word: horman
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...death of the American, Charles Horman, is fact, certainly. A bright, left-leaning freelance writer and documentary film maker, Horman, together with his wife Joyce, moved to Santiago, Chile, in 1972, eager to watch the development of the new Socialist regime of President Salvador Allende. Horman was visiting the seaside resort of Vina del Mar with another American woman, Terry Simon, when Allende was overthrown by a military coup on Sept. 11,1973. According to a journal they kept at the time, Horman and Simon saw and spoke to several U.S. military officials in Vina who strongly hinted that...
Director Constantin Costa-Gavras (Z, State of Siege) builds Missing around the arrival in Santia go of Herman's father Edmund (Jack Lemmon), who joins Horman's wife (Sissy Spacek) in a frustrating quest to find out what happened to his son (John Shea). Basing his narrative largely on Thomas Hauser's 1978 book, The Execution of Charles Horman (reissued in a new paperback as Missing), Costa-Gavras shows the pair running up against a phalanx of American diplomats who profess to be helping but who know all along that the Chilean military authorities have already murdered...
...essentials, however, family and friends say that the movie is honest. "It's an excellent dramatization of my book," declares Hauser. "It is true in spirit, but not precisely accurate in each and every detail." The elder Horman, who has spent the past eight years building up his case, brought suit against eleven Government officials in 1977, claiming, among other things, negligence and wrongful death. Most counts were dismissed on procedural grounds. Horman withdrew the rest since he was unable to get some classified documents that he believed would be conclusive. "They're desperate," he says...
...Freedom of Information Act, which require some explanation. One, a cable from Davis to Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, is dated Oct. 4, 1973, and recounts neighbors' descriptions of Charles' arrest and an eyewitness's report of his detention by the military. Yet when Edmund Horman arrived in Santiago on Oct. 5, he was told by the U.S. Ambassador that his son was probably in hiding. Other documents raise similar puzzles...