The World - News from Sept. 15, 1989

A small bomb shattered the window of a York, England, bookstore owned by the publisher of Salman Rushdie’s controversial novel “The Satanic Verses,” and bombs were found at three of the publisher’s stores in other towns, police said. The bomb at the Viking Penguin bookstore in the northern city of York caused no injuries and only slight damage. Police said that bombs at Peterborough, in central England, and Guildford, in the south, were defused. Another, in the Midlands city of Nottingham, was blown up by army bomb disposal experts after the area around the shop was evacuated. Muslims around the world have accused Rusdhie of blaspheming Islam in the book, and Iran has called for his death.