71.   It also has proclaimed a death sentence, or fatwa, against British author Salman Rushdie for his book The Satanic Verses, which the Islamic regime considers blasphemous.

72.   Iranian authorities also reaffirmed the death sentence or fatwa on British author Salman Rushdie for his book The Satanic Verses, considered blasphemous by the late Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini.

73.   Iran condemned on Tuesday the granting of a literary award to British author Salman Rushdie in Vienna, saying it was an insult to Islam.

74.   A hardline Islamic newspaper warned here Thursday that Salman Rushdie will be assassinated despite assurances from Tehran not to track down the British author.

75.   A senior Iranian official said Thursday that his government could soon satisfy European Union demands that it renounce support for an Islamic death sentence against British author Salman Rushdie.

76.   All Moslems and Islamic countries have a duty to carry out a fatwa ordering the execution of British author Salman Rushdie, an Iranian religious leader said on Wednesday.

77.   All problems between Iran and the west would be resolved if the British author Salman Rushdie died a natural death, parliament speaker Ali Akbar Nategh Nuri said.

78.   An Egyptian religious leader called on Sunday for the British author Salman Rushdie to face trial by three wise men representing Christians, Jews and Moslems.

79.   British author Julian Barnes and historian Theodore Zeldin were among a group of foreigners to receive a prestigious French cultural award Tuesday.

80.   British author Salman Rushdie is to visit Strasbourg Tuesday, on the seventh anniversary of the issue of a fatwa, a death edict, against him.