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Attack on author Salman Rushdie dredges up memories of Berkeley bookstore bombing
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Salman Rushdie, the author stabbed multiple times Friday as he prepared to deliver a talk in New York, had once sparked a political inferno in Berkeley β when his critics are believed to have bombed two bookstores, testing the city's faith in free speech. The events of February 1989 still loom heavily for Andy Ross, the former owner of Cody's Books on Telegraph Avenue. Rushdie's novel, βThe Satanic Verses,β had come out a few months earlier in...
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