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...SALMAN ("DON'T GIVE OUT MY ROOM NUMBER") RUSHDIE AGE: 50 OCCUPATION: Long-winded novelist BEST PUNCH: In the Guardian, Rushdie, still upset that Le Carre wondered if stores shouldn't carry his book for fear of bombings, called him "an illiterate pompous...
...with Iraq's longtime chief of bioweapons production, a diminutive woman named Rihab Rashida Taha or, to the U.N. representatives who distrust her, "Dr. Germ." Little known until last week, when NBC Nightly News revealed her role, Taha was responsible for tests of anthrax and botulinum at Iraq's Salman Pak facility, first on rats and mice, then on rhesus monkeys, beagles and donkeys. Still unreleased videotapes seized by the U.N. two years ago show animals that had been exposed to germ agents writhing and dying in agony...
Getting married is always an act of faith, but a recent pair of nuptials displayed a particularly vibrant brand of optimism. SALMAN RUSHDIE, who is still under the fatwa placed upon him on Valentine's Day 1989 by the late Ayatullah Khomeini (unromantic chap), wed his girlfriend of three years in a private ceremony in the Hamptons, New York City's summer playground. Most media outlets, in recognition of the danger in which her marital state places the new MRS. RUSHDIE, are simply calling her Elizabeth. It's The Satanic Verses author's third stab at marriage, which puts...
...commentary on the celebration of the country's 50th anniversary of independence from the British, Salman Rushdie provides a brutal but honest assessment of the grim political and social scenario in India [WORLD, Aug. 11]. I often wonder what has wounded India more--200 years of colonial rule or 50 years of pseudosocialist government by lackluster, dishonest politicians. RAJENDRA K. ANEJA Sao Paulo...
...Best Books of 1996" the Moor's Last Sigh was mentioned as Salman Rushdie's first novel since The Satanic Verses. However, he wrote a novel, Haroun and the Sea of Stories (winner of a Writers' Guild award), in 1990 while in hiding after the fatwa. During this period he also published Imaginary Homelands, a collection of essays and criticism, and his first (and so far only) collection of stories, East, West. IRFAN AHMAD KHAN Karachi, Pakistan...