WORLD : Rushdie at Not-So-Secret Party
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LONDON — Detectives whisked author Salman Rushdie away from a secret university dinner party in Oxford because they feared an attack by Muslim students, a British newspaper reported today.
The Daily Mail said it was the first failure in the heavy security surrounding Rushdie since he went into hiding two months ago after calls for his death by Iran’s spiritual leader, the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini.
Khomeini accused the Indian-born author of blaspheming Islam in his book, “The Satanic Verses.”
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