ABC Evening News for Sunday, Feb 26, 1989
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(Studio: Sam Donaldson) Report introduced.
(London, England: Pierre Salinger) Reactions in Moslem world to book "The Satanic Verses" reported; scenes shown of demonstration in Tehran, Iran, by supporters of Ayatollah Ruholla Khomeini against ntns. supporting British author Salman Rushdie. Great Britain and other European ntns. noted recalling ambs. from Iran in midst of controversy; scenes shown of protests against book in Beirut, Lebanon, &Paris, France. Efforts of Moslem leaders in Great Britain to hammer out compromise with Rushdie's British publisher, Viking Penguin, reported
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