European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 3, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Friday March 3. 1989 the stars and stripes Page 3 station offers satanic verses for Stevens discs new York not new pm is offer ing free copies of Salman Rushdie s satanic verses to the first 101 listeners who mail in any recording by cat Stevens. Dave Herman who made the offer on his morning program said it was a response to com ments made by inc former pop Singer a convert 10 islam now known As Yusuf islam who has been quoted As supporting Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini s death threat against the author. The idea of marking someone for death be cause of what he writes Herman said is the Antithesis of what Rock v Roll and the station stand for new and two other stations Webe pm in we sport come and Wcur pm in Washington Unno Ikid that they would Stop play ing music by cat Stevens. Abco am and pm in Denver acknowledged that it had stopped Loo hut attributed the unan. Noun cd move to Calls from listeners rather than Sun Ion policy. Explaining the distinction Den Nis con Slang Ine the operations manager said our feeling is that for a station to ban some thing is basically censorship like Banning the Book satanic verses " Britain refuses to talk to Iran until it renounces violence London a the government Raj Eclid on thursday an iranian proposal to discuss the controversy Over the satanic verses saying there is nothing to talk about until Iran renounces violence. News reports said a television reporter was being guarded after receiving threats from an Anonymous caller who accused him of insulting Ayatollah Kihoi Lah Khomeini. A related store. Page 5. An iranian newspaper called fora worldwide Day of disgust so moslem can demonstrate their hatred against the enemies of islam an Arab writer who last year won the Nobel prize for literature urged moslem countries to condemn Khomeini s death sentence against author Salman Rushdie but also proposed that publishers of the satanic verses be boycotted. The soviet news Agency. Tass suggested Khomeini May have had no Choice under the Law of slam but to denounce Rushdie. A spokesman for Britain s foreign office said there were Telephone Calls at an official level wednesday and again thursday proposing a meeting in Geneva. The foreign office did no identify its iranian con tall bul British broadcasting corp television said in understood the Contact was Mohammad Mahdi a Hood Zach Asti who until this week was Iran s top ranking Diplomat in London on feb. 14, Khomeini sentenced Rushdie to die for writing his novel which some say insults islam. Rush die a briton who was born into a moslem family in India apologized for the distress the Book caused but Khomeini rejected inc apology. Iranian Leaden have offered a s5.2 million Bounty for Rushdie who since feb. 14 has been in hiding and reportedly under police guard. News reports said Channel four reporter Peter Sis sons was also under guard after a Man claiming to represent a pro iranian group. Guardians of the islamic revolution threatened him. The Anonymous caller telephoned news agencies in London last week claiming Sissons Insu Llpyd Khomeini in a program feb. 24. Peter Sissons of Channel four will pay the Price of insulting the Imam Khomeini the caller said during the program Sisso Rii interviewed Basil and asked do you understand Hal we Dori l regard it As civilised to kill people for their opinions do you understand that people in this country fought a world War to protect themselves and others from being murdered for i hair beliefs. -., the iranian newspaper Jom Huri islam said thurs Day that it is important thai moslem keep the Initia Tive in the dispute Over the satanic  it de scribed Khomeini s death order As a Brave and timely blow thai has disturbed the balance of the Ecsi. In Cairo Egypt. Nobel laureate Naguib Mahfou said he believed Khomeini had harmed islam and moslem with the death order but he also said he supports Boycott or Eon fiscal Ion of inc Book for the Sake of social peace and on Condi Tion this not be used an Prate to to suppress  troops police patrol Caracas after rioting Caracas. Venezuela a More than 20,000 soldiers and police officers patrolled the capital thursday to main Tain order Alk three Days of no Liing Over Price increases. A newspaper said Al  200 people had been killed. Sporadic gunfire died Down Ai Day break in the capital and officials urged workers to return to thl in jobs. The govern Mem of this Oil Rich coun try has blamed the rioting and looting inc country s worst unrest in 31 years of democratic Rule on minuscule groups of leftist Emir mists it did not identify. Hut the scope of the disturbances prompted n to impose martial la and an overnight curfew beginning tuesday ii Day Afler. Increases in gasoline prices Fin transit fares Loucou 3 off inc Vio Lence. Icel Nacion newspaper said at least nine people were killed wednesday by sni or shooting at troops in the shantytowns East and West of Caracas. On thursday the paper said the dead included an elderly woman hit by a stray Bullet while she was in her apartment. At least 200 people have died. I Odd people Hae been injured and 2.000 arrested. Al National said filing official sources. The paper listed the names of 159 peo ple whose bodies it said were in Caracas morgues which in described As being congested with corpses a estimated 15,000 t rooms and. 7,000 police maintained order in the capital on thursday. Some patrolled in armoured vehicles others manned roadblocks. Interior minister Alejandro i Aguirre said a wednesday night thai Small anarchistic groups were Bent on prolonging the unrest that has shaken the  president Carlos Andres i Cre. Has been in office for just i month. The opposition has blamed the riots on government austerity measures Mart Dalid by the. International monetary fund As a condition for new credits. Venezuela affluent during the 1970s thanks 10 is Oil reserves saw j is fortunes slide along Ullh Petroleum prices in 1981. Real wages have since fallen by one third and inflation is expected to hit 70 Pyrc Cal this year double the 1988 Fig ure and the foreign debt is j 3.v Bil lion fourth largest in latin America after Brazil Mexico and Argentina. On. Wednesday. Perez announced an. Agree men Between Industry and labor for an immediate raise of More than so percent to All private sector workers earning the minimum wage food Sho Noges were reported and the army began to Airlift food from the Inte rior to Supply Resi dents of Caracas a cily of 4 million people and the country s Fyk Nanial Center Venezuela  thirds of its foodstuffs. The unrest that has convulsed Caracas and seven other cities began monday in Carenas .30 Miles West of the capital but has largely been entered in Caracas and its poorer neighbourhoods reunion after acquittal do id Mcbride 33, of co Lumbia pan and his German wife con Nie Art Cunill a Vvan Esdie in Katmandu Nepal. He returned Fra i Hisim 150 Miles cast of Katmandu sifter being a Quillet of Petcu immig Chri Linni spreading Christian doctrines is forbid Den in inc Ili Nilu Ken Dom 9 in cocaine smug my operation Given a Ferms Columbus Cia a nine people can Icid in a Panama to United Stales cocaine smuggling operation that included shipments of the drug on military planes were sentenced wednesday to prison terms of tip to 24  Smith of Brooklyn  called by Aulhorn ties he new York connection received the 24-Jear term. Mis wife Regma smut got a Uva year sen Tenc Ethe ring was broken up after one of the defendants was arrested on a traffic violation in Mout tric a last May and authorities found cocaine in his car. Jackie Lee Biglow & former Serviceman whole arrest in Moultrie set off the investigation received a five year Lerm. Bigelow pleaded guilty and testified against some of the defendants in the Federal drug trial Lavt fall. John w. Turner in an army Reserve Serge and from Nashville tenn., also was Semi need to five years. Julia Thorn a new York Friend of the Smiths was Given three years for helping mrs. Smith Lake a delivery of cocaine from moult no to new York on a com Mercial night on May 27. Olla cars sentenced by . District judge a Robert Elliott for their roles in the drug operation were Gary King 27, of Doerun ga., is i years and a $20,000 Fine Herberto Lynton a panamanian Cui in who was on  Lite . Army when he was arrested 15 i years Brenda hic Tjce of Doerun two years pro Baision and Maxine Williams of Moenin also a witness u the Columbus trial two yours probation. Authorities said the operation brought 600 pounds of cocaine into the United states out 13 months