The World - News from Feb. 20, 1987

The host of a West German television show that sparked a diplomatic row with a spoof of Iran’s leader, the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, has been placed under police protection. Rudy Carrell and his family were given a police guard after he received threatening telephone calls, a spokesman for the Lower Saxony state police said. The program, broadcast Sunday, used film tricks to create the impression that women were throwing underwear at Khomeini’s feet. Juergen Sudhoff, head of the Foreign Ministry’s political department, apologized to Iranian Ambassador Mohammed Djavid Salari for the satire.