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- <text id=91TT1049>
- <title>
- May 13, 1991: A Sure Seller -- Somewhere
- </title>
- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
- May 13, 1991 Crack Kids
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- GRAPEVINE, Page 15
- A Sure Seller--Somewhere
- </hdr><body>
- <p>By DAVID ELLIS/Reported by Sidney Urquhart
- </p>
- <p> Iranian President Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, the
- powerful Shi`ite literary critic who upheld a death sentence
- against Salman Rushdie for The Satanic Verses, wants to be a
- best-selling author himself. Rafsanjani's co-author is offering
- the 400-page manuscript for Our Revolution: The Ideology Behind
- the Movement to U.S. publishing houses. Excerpts from the work
- show that the Ayatullah Khomeini's political heir still has a
- jaundiced view of the Great Satan. "Our real desire, from the
- beginning, was to humiliate the United States throughout the
- world," writes Rafsanjani. Moreover, Westerners "are members of
- the school of pleasure-seeking, lasciviousness, enjoyment and
- entertainment...[caught in] the fetid, slimy bed of lust
- and pleasure." Showing some worldliness himself, Rafsanjani is
- offering to provide rare family snapshots and even "unpublished"
- photographs of the American hostages held for 444 days in Iran
- to anyone who snaps up his book.
- </p>
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- </body></article>
- </text>
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