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                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: WEDNESDAY, March 3, 1993                   TAG: 9303030283
SECTION: EXTRA                    PAGE: 9   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: From wire reports
DATELINE:                                 LENGTH: Short

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PEOPLE

Author Salman Rushdie, in hiding from an Iranian death threat, received an uncontested divorce decree Tuesday after more than two years' separation from American writer Marianne Wiggins.

Rushdie, 45, plans to remarry soon, sources close to the writer said. His future wife is reported to be a poet, but Scotland Yard asked that her name not be released for security reasons.

Rushdie and Wiggins, who were married in 1988, separated in July 1989, five months after Iran accused Rushdie of blaspheming Islam with his book "The Satanic Verses" and called for his death.

The couple went into hiding after Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini condemned Rushdie on Feb. 14, 1989.

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