Family name still fuels disputes among Scottish

Sunday, March 17, 2002

EDINBURGH, Scotland -- More than 300 years since members of the Campbell clan slaughtered 38 of their rival MacDonalds at Glencoe in the Scottish Highlands -- on the pretext that the MacDonalds had failed to swear allegiance to the English crown -- passions still run high.

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