The passing of a friend.

• Position: Off the News - Helmut Sonnenfeldt - Brief article - In memoriam

Helmut Sonnenfeldt, who passed away November 18 and was a supporter of this magazine, was one of Washington's great forces for good in the foreign policy arena. A Russian expert born in Germany, Hal made it to the United States after World War II and rose through Washington's foreign policy ranks to become by the early 1970s Henry Kissinger's key policy advisor oil all matters relating to the Soviet Union.

By the mid-1980s, having long left government, Hal developed a new interest--international economics. He was instrumental in helping us start this magazine. Many of our writers through the years, from Lawrence Eagleburger to Kissinger himself, participated thanks to Hal...