
                         Roanoke Times
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DATE: SATURDAY, April 28, 1990                   TAG: 9004280048
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A6   EDITION: METRO 
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DATELINE: LONDON                                LENGTH: Short

`VERSES' AUTHOR ENDS SILENCE BY RADIO TALK

Novelist Salman Rushdie vowed Friday not to give in to the threats hanging over him since the late Iranian leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini sentenced him to death for his book "The Satanic Verses."

Breaking silence for the first time since he went into hiding under police protection, the Indian-born writer spoke about his life of "colossal restriction" in a 15-minute telephone interview on BBC Radio 4.

He voiced surprise that there had been no prosecution of Moslems in Britain who have publicly called for his death. "It seems to me that people have been prosecuted for incitement in the past on less grounds than this. It seems to me to be odd that there has been no prosecution." - Agence France-Presse

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