Although he enjoys a strong following with his constituency, he has frequently received threatening calls and email messages.

Ms. Amaral and Ms. Kwock, who has lost the Senator's patronage since the accusations, said they had received threatening calls and letters for their outspokenness.

Jenny Norton, an editor, said that since the BBC reported on Uzbekistan's crackdown of demonstrators in May, employees had received threatening calls.

A television anchor who had received threatening calls and a letter from a rebuffed male admirer was shot to death in her driveway, but investigators today did not rule out other suspects.

He is especially tortuous on Beau's class of recruits, hoping this will get them to reveal to him which of the men is the author of an anonymous letter Dagineau has received threatening his life.

James W. Huston, the lead lawyer for the plaintiffs, said yesterday that since the photographs were published, the men's lives had been put in danger and their wives had received threatening calls.

The owner of the city's largest Bengali-language bookstore, Bishawajit Saha, said he had also received threatening calls, although he planned to stock "God on Trial" at his shop, Muktadhara, on 74th Street in Jackson Heights, Queens.

He originally named this 44-seat place Afghan Grill because Bukhara and its derivatives were already in use as names for Indian restaurants, but he renamed the restaurant after Sept. 11 because his employees had received threatening calls and because business fell drastically.

Pakistani officials today confirmed that several investigators had received threatening calls within the last 10 days from a mobile telephone now identified as having belonged to Mr. Pearl.