Word: murder
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...conflict cut to the heart of Muslim and Judeo-Christian values, with centuries of cultural misunderstanding and mistrust finding a flash point in Rushdie's novel. After Khomeini's call to murder, many Muslim leaders worldwide disagreed with the ferocity of his action, but none had a friendly word for Rushdie, his literary intentions or his right to free speech. To be sure, few of his prosecutors had read the book, as the author pointed out repeatedly; most seemed to feel they had learned enough from printed excerpts or merely word of mouth to convict the author of blasphemy compounded...
...dismissed the previous comment as the personal opinion of one of its employees. At the same time, the news agency reported that a local newspaper had denounced the offer of money to anyone who would kill Rushdie, observing that "to pay one man to kill another man is murder at a premium and not a religiously inspired act." This remarkable display of vacillation, played out in the dispatches from Tehran, suggested that pragmatists in Iran had begun a campaign to control the damage caused by the Ayatullah's earlier pronouncement...
...nobody's surprise, drugs played a part in each of these shootings. Thanks to a competitive crack market, Washington's murder rate has climbed to a national high of almost two per day. There have already been 75 D.C. homocides this year...
...Depression, the book introduces the reader to the New York mob of Dutch Schultz, who, along with his trusted--and not so trusted--minions, runs illegal businesses, evades taxes and dabbles in the pastime of murder...
BECAUSE Billy is not fully a member of the gang, he makes an excellent narrator. He has chosen his side and is privy to information, but he retains enough of his independence to report believably. Readers get more than a taste of depravity--murder, violence and illicit sex are painstakingly described, but thanks to Bathgate, they never grow callous. The readers' initial premise is not inverted...