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- <text id=89TT0708>
- <title>
- Mar. 13, 1989: World Notes:Terrorism
- </title>
- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1989
- Mar. 13, 1989 Between Two Worlds:Middle-Class Blacks
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- WORLD, Page 39
- World Notes
- TERRORISM
- To Break or Not to Break
- </hdr><body>
- <p> The Satanic Verses kept sparking repercussions around the
- world last week. The Riverdale Press, a New York City weekly,
- was fire-bombed, possibly in response to an editorial
- championing the novel by Salman Rushdie. In California offended
- Muslims are believed to have tossed Molotov cocktails into two
- bookstores selling the book.
- </p>
- <p> In Tehran, Iran's parliament voted to cut the Islamic
- Republic's relations with Britain if Prime Minister Margaret
- Thatcher's government did not officially denounce Rushdie's
- novel. Britain responded with a carrot and a stick. Foreign
- Secretary Sir Geoffrey Howe told the BBC World Service that
- Britain understood why Muslims criticized the book and said it
- was "offensive" for comparing Britain to Nazi Germany. But he
- emphasized that nothing justified Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini's
- order to kill Rushdie.
- </p>
- <p> On a visit to Tehran, meanwhile, Soviet Foreign Minister
- Eduard Shevardnadze sought to capitalize on the affair, saying
- "conditions are ripe" for improved Soviet-Iranian ties.
- </p>
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- </body></article>
- </text>
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