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- PEOPLE, Page 63New Threats
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- By SOPHFRONIA SCOTT/Reported by Wendy Cole
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- Just when he thought it was safe to venture cautiously
- into the public eye, Salman Rushdie has had to burrow
- underground once more. The marked author of The Satanic Verses,
- which caused the late Ayatullah Khomeini of Iran to issue a
- fatwa, or death sentence, on him in 1989, had been trying to
- emerge from hiding, making unannounced book-signing appearances
- and even granting several interviews. But last week brought word
- that a hit squad has been gearing up an assassination plan and
- that the reward for killing Rushdie has been doubled to $2
- million. The death threat could well complicate efforts to
- improve the shaky diplomatic ties between London and Tehran.
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