European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 18, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse Friday August 18, 1989 the stars and stripes pages new Arf form franc of fal Chalk talk Nannc Kiu Inu left and Kristi i Agadir if Honolulu who shared first prise Tor making the Best draw inn of Muri. A 15-year-old elephant in the City no Nerv allowed to Transfer their artistic creativity from paper to elephant hide. I he contest was part of a City sponsored summer fun program. A Rushdie still on the run living in spy Safe houses London a Salman Rushdie whose writings Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini found offensive to Mohammed and Allah has spent seven months hiding in Safe houses Cut off from friends and protected by armed guards. On feb. 14, the iranian Leader declared Rushdie s novel the satanic verses blasphemous and told his followers to kill the author. The shiite moslem Patri Arch died june 3, but his sentence lives. Rushdie s american wife Marianne Wiggins has been quoted As saying the couple has moved 56 times to a succession of Safe houses used for spies and Intelli gence contacts. Friends say the Rushdie seem in Good spirits but that the Indian born British writer a non practising moslem feels his seclusion May end Only if Iran for Mally withdraws the threat. Soon after Khomeini passed sentence. Rushdie is sued a statement expressing his profound regret for any offence to moslem but it was rejected by Iran. Among parts of the the satanic verses Many moslem find offensive Are a scene in which prostitutes Are Given the names of the Prophet Mohammed s wives and implications that Mohammed not god wrote the Koran the moslem holy Book. He s been silenced effectively and cannot speak in his own defense and that s a terrible plight for any writer to be in it s a Friend Lisa a Pigna Mucsi said. It s very hard to speak for another person but think he s bearing up very Well she said in an inter View. Appie Namasi is co author of the Rushdie file a recent Book about the Case. Rushdie. 42, and his wife of 19 months have not been seen in Public since police escorted them from their North London Home on feb. 14. Rushdie has not Given interviews and Wiggins 41. Also a novelist has said isolation is their greatest Burden. You can no longer pass Down the Street and encounter a stranger the London Maga Ine options Salman Rushdie Luthur of the Book that earned him million Dollar profits und a moslem death sentence. Quoted her As saying last month. You lose All sense of spontaneity because Vou live in fear. Fear is an element that used to be on the far Side of the Wiggins sons she and her husband keep diaries stay in touch with their families and world events and always have at least one armed bodyguard with them. They have dined occasionally with friends literary acquaintances or such political figures As Neil Kin Nock Leader of the opposition labor parly. But friends a tile occasions have become fewer at the insistence of the guards. The Rushdie have occupied a succession of houses operated he special Branch Security police and Britain s intelligence Agency Viggins was quoted As telling the sunday Telegraph. She returned to their Home in London s Islington District to pm k up belongings but neither has been Home since. Their friends literary agents and publishers do no know their whereabouts according to the London newspaper the Independent. It said the Rushdie do not take Telephone Calls and mail is sent on a Rounda bout route via the police. Security has Cost Lens of thousands of dollars the Independent said. More than million hardback copies of the satanic verses have been sold including 600.000 in the United Stales. Rushdie has earned More than si.1 million from the Sale of his Book said sources at his publishers. Viking Penguin. One source said that Viking Penguin had spent an amount equal to the royalties on Security for its build Ings and bookstores so the major Winner is Rushdie in a plans for a paperback edition have been shelved. Rushdie continues to review books for the observer a London weekly and news reports say he is writing a children s Hook. The International committee for the defense of Sal Man Rushdie and his publishers has gathered the Sig natures of 12.000 people including 2.500 writers in a Micro to to the committee last month Rushdie said he believed reconciliation with Iran was possible. Lie said Many moslem had written messages of support and there is no such unbridgeable Gull be tween his vision of islam and that of moslem who accuse him of blasphemy. . Lawmakers View soviet laser test Tass says Moscow a several top . Lawmakers saw a powerful soviet laser fired in a rare display of soviet High technology Tass reported thursday. A group from the House armed services commit tee led by rep. Los Aspin d-wis., toured a Branch of the Kur Chatov Institute of atomic Energy in Troitsky near Moscow on wednesday. They were shown the to Kamak experimental thermonuclear installation and the Angara-5 experimental thermonuclear inertia installation. The guests were shown a powerful laser in the process of operation the official news Agency said. Tass did not describe the installations further and the congressmen who have been touring soviet Mili tary and space facilities since aug. 7. Were in meetings and unavailable for comment. They were scheduled to give a news conference Friday before Leav ing the coun try later in the Day. The new York times quoted one delegation Mem Ber John h. Hammond former head of the directed Energy program for the Pentagon s strategic defens initiative assaying the visit revealed important new information about soviet research on Gas the article in thursday s editions said the laser blasted a Sheet of Metal. Hammond said he believed the laser was of limited military Pentagon says the soviets arc developing High Energy lasers for strategic air defense space based anti satellite missions and defense against ballistic missiles. The United states has a similar program. The congressmen have also visited a launch site for an intercontinental ballistic missile and the soviet space Center at Bai Konur where they saw the soviet Spac Ihu Lilc Buran
