81.   British author Salman Rushdie on Sunday called for energetic measures by the international community to get the death sentence imposed on him by Iran for alleged blasphemy lifted.

82.   British author Salman Rushdie was presented with the European prize for literature Monday by the Austrian Minister for Education and Culture Rudolf Scholten.

83.   British author Salman Rushdie defied death threats Wednesday to receive a European literary award in public amid tight security here.

84.   Danish Prime Minister Poul Nyrup Rasmussen apologised unreservedly Sunday on behalf of his government to British author Salman Rushdie for cancelling his planned visit to Denmark for security reasons.

85.   European Union envoys met a senior Iranian official here on Wednesday and asked Tehran for a pledge not to harm British author Salman Rushdie, diplomatic sources said.

86.   Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Velayati on Sunday stressed Iran had no intention of tracking down the British author Salman Rushdie, who is condemned to death here for blasphemy.

87.   Foreign ministers of the Scandinavian countries called on the Iranian government Thursday to lift the death sentence on British author Salman Rushdie.

88.   Fair organizers have banned Iranian exhibitors to protest a death sentence issued by the late Iranian spiritual leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini on British author Salman Rushdie.

89.   Rushdie, a British author, has been under an Iranian-sponsored death sentence for several years for allegedly committing blasphemy in one of his books.

90.   Rushdie, a British author, was sentenced to death by Islamic clerics for a book that was deemed anti-Islam.