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- <text id=92TT0415>
- <title>
- Feb. 24, 1992: War of Words
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1992
- Feb. 24, 1992 Holy Alliance
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- PEOPLE, Page 72
- War of Words
- </hdr><body>
- <p>By Michael Quinn
- </p>
- <p> There were two hostages taken the day the late Ayatullah
- Khomeini decreed that Salman Rushdie, author of The Satanic
- Verses, should be murdered for the crime of producing a book
- that didn't meet with the Iranian Imam's approval: Rushdie
- himself, forced into hiding, and his book, deprived of a mass
- audience when his publisher killed the paperback. Last week an
- effort was made to rescue one of those hostages. On the third
- anniversary of the infamous fatwa, dozens of publishers and
- organizations called for a soft-cover Satanic Verses. The
- statement is the first step in plans to publish an edition
- through a broad group of companies, thus thwarting would-be
- terrorists by spreading the sponsorship while boosting the
- industry's product: free speech.
- </p>
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- </body></article>
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