Word: britains
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...feet from a jetliner that has just been exploded by terrorists over the English Channel. They have an animated conversation as they hurtle toward earth; they land safely, but then their troubles begin anew. Along the way, the author writes about his schooling and young adulthood in Britain, about his love for Bombay and about the death of his father. He explores the roots ! of his Muslim faith and retells some legends of the Prophet Muhammad in a whimsical and sometimes outrageous way, though taking care to offer up these sequences as dreams, or even dreams within dreams, by characters...
...itself at the center of the controversy -- because Rushdie is a British citizen and because its Tehran embassy, reopened less than three months ago after being closed for eight years, had been attacked by an angry mob earlier last week. The Foreign Office summoned Iran's lone diplomat in Britain and told him that Khomeini's threat was "totally unacceptable," demanded special protection for its embassy, and disclosed that London was "freezing" its plan to strengthen diplomatic ties with the Islamic state...
European Common Market governments decided yesterday to withdraw their top diplomats from Iran to protest Ayatollah Ruhollan Khomeini's renewed order for Moslems to kill novelist Salman Rushdie. Britain went further by pulling out its entire embassy staff...
Foreign Secretary Sir Geoffrey Howe said the death threats against Rushdie and the publishers of The Satanic Verses for allegedly blaspheming Islam were "unwarranted interference" in Britain's internal affairs...
...Britain's part, he said, "it is no longer sensible to maintain a diplomatic presence in Tehran...