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GENEVA: Secretary of State Warren Christopher meets with Balkan leaders today in an attempt to bolster the U.S. brokered peace process in Yugoslavia. The peace process is being tested by Bosnian Serbs who are fleeing their homes in the Sarajevo suburb of Grbavica anticipating the transfer of control to the Muslim-Croat Federation on Tuesday. Many Bosnian Serbs are torching their homes as they move out, and groups of Serb thugs, roaming the area looting and burning houses, harass Serb residents who refuse to leave. Arson and looting took place in other Sarajevo suburbs, but not with the violence...
...have. This spurs A. to question himself and, by extension, a closer view of his work, leading to his search for old documentary reels made by the Manakis brothers, early figures in Balkan cinema. As A. travels from country to country, including the fractured parts of the former Yugoslavia, he tries to track down where these lost reels ended up in the half-century or more since their last showing. Locales charged with history replace Odysseus' mythic destinations; the people A. encounters each adopts one or more of the characteristics from Homeric characters such as Nauticaa and Persephone...
Lawrence cited Marian cults in Yugoslavia and the rise of Pentecostalism in Brazil as examples of the global shift toward fundamentalist religions...
Lawrence predicted that "markedly particularistic cultures that will not give up their particularity" may continue to instigate religious conflict in unstable regions like Yugoslavia, the Middle East and Brazil...
...resent your depiction of Radovan Karadzic as "the Bosnian Serbs' fuhrer" in your report "Now It's Serb Against Serb" [WORLD, Jan. 22]. Blame should be placed on Alija Izetbegovic and Franjo Tudjman as well. They have done the same amount of damage to the people of the former Yugoslavia as has Karadzic. Even though I personally don't like Karadzic, I wouldn't put him in the same class as Hitler. Any personal vendetta against Serbian politicians is deplorable. ILIJA TANOVIC Windsor, Ontario Via E-mail...