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Edited by Mary McNamara

While some critics here are wondering how long “JFK” director Oliver Stone has had these paranoid delusions, there are some places in the world where Stone’s vision of the Kennedy assassination as military coup, is considered, well, restrained. “JFK,” which became widely available on bootleg videotape in Yugoslavia within days of its theatrical release in the United States, is doing boffo business in Serbia. Residents seem to accept Stone’s theory easily--”You think that is bad,” one man on the street shrugs, “you should know what’s happening here.” Of course, Belgrade is the capital of conspiracy theories. In an attempt to fathom the disintegration of their country, many Serbs speak seriously of German/Hungarian/British/papal attempts to create a Fourth Reich and contend that the Latin American drug lords are financing the Croats. Elvis and alien sightings should be next.

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