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Take the Serbs, whose leader, Slobodan Milosevic, is most to blame for the horrors. Serbs remember vividly what happened on a late spring day 603 years ago, June 15, 1389, when Prince Lazar tried to stop the advancing army of the Ottoman sultan Murad I, 150 miles south of Belgrade. Lazar's army was crushed, and Serbia fell under Ottoman rule. That epic defeat has roughly the same significance for Serbs that the destruction of King Solomon's Temple has for Jews...
...Simpson), proprietor of the fishing lodge in which the action takes place; the Reverend David Lee (Richard Claflin) and his fiance Catherine Simms (Bina Martin); Catherine's exuberant but uneducated brother, Ellard (Ian Lithgow); Ku Klux Klan member Owen Musser (Glenn Kessler); and military man Forggy Leseur (J.C Wolfgang Murad), who brings the painfully shy Charlie Baker (Tom Hughes) to Tilghman County and suggests that in order to avoid conversation he pretend to be a foreigner...
...Americans respond that opinions may be divided -- as they are throughout the American public -- but loyalties are not. "Where else is my loyalty going to be?" asks Kay al-Askari, the northern New Jersey representative of the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee. "We've been here 35 years." Brenda Murad, a second-generation Lebanese American, agrees. "I am not dealing with the conflict as an Arab American," she says. "I just see it as very wrong. When we went into Panama, I felt the same...
...much prospect for stability or democracy taking root in the Middle East anytime soon. But at the very least, they hope that the war will raise consciousness. "For the first time Americans are having to take a look at what is going on in the Middle East," says Murad, "and I hope a lot of myths will be dispelled." As the battle goes on, however, it is sure to seem like a high price to pay for enlightenment...
...Hameed Murad...