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Salman Rushdie Threatened Author Getting Bolder Salman Rushdie, the author in hiding, keeps getting bolder in his attempt to communicate despite threats on his life.
Surely it would take nothing less than such a danger to stop any writer from promoting a new book, and Rushdie has granted several newspaper and magazine interviews since the recent publication of "Haroun and the Sea of Stories." The novel, a bestseller, is his first since "The Satanic Verses," the book that prompted Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini to order Moslems to kill Rushdie because it allegedly blasphemed Islam.
The command was issued in February, 1989, and Rushdie has been under cover and on the run ever since. His recent meetings with the media have been conducted in unspecified locations, but most recently, Rushdie briefly emerged from seclusion to tape a TV interview at BBC studios in West London. In the session, which aired Monday night, he said he would like to go to a beach, lessen the stress he is under, and try to reason with Moslems about the ongoing threats on his life.
"I want to slowly begin to pinch back bits of my life, and to continue to work as hard as I can to bring the temperature down," he said, referring to...