The American general leading the NATO military operation against Yugoslavia discovered his Jewish roots as an adult, The New York Times reported Monday. Gen. Wesley Kanne Clark, who was raised as a Protestant in Little Rock, Ark., embraced his background when he learned of it in his 20s, according to several family members. His grandfather, Jacob Nemerovsky, fled Russia in the 1890s during an anti-Semitic pogrom, the paper said.
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