Word: ahram
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...than blood," or ridiculing Egyptian "diplomats who are doing nothing but buying cars, or ties and perfume from Paris." One man not only writes such things but also gets away with it. In addition to being editor and voice of Egypt's biggest and most authoritative newspaper, AI Ahram (The Pyramids), Mohammed Hassanein Heikal happens to be Nasser's closest confidant, adviser and friend...
Though Heikal's influence derives directly from his intimacy with Nasser, it is amplified by his weekly article in the Friday (Sabbath) edition of Al Ahram. The night it goes to press, more than a dozen embassy chauffeurs wait until the first copies are printed, and then speed back to their offices for immediate translation. Al Ahram's Friday circulation jumps by a third and wire services rush out stories on what Heikal has written, knowing it to be an accurate reflection of Nasser's thinking...
Recognizing Heikal's influence, the controlling family of the highly influential but nearly bankrupt Al Ahram approached him in 1956 with an offer to run the paper. Within two years, with Nasser's support, he had put it in the black. Today its circulation approaches half a million and its plant is as luxurious and modern as any in the world, with British presses, West German engraving equipment, and a U.S. computer system that sets Arabic type by means of punched tape...
...advantage of Israel's overextended supply lines by forcing a prolonged campaign inside Egypt?in Nasser's words, an "inch-by-inch war." It is historically such a Russian concept of defense by attrition that he just possibly did not think of it himself. Says Nasser's confidant, Al Ahram Editor Mohammed Hasanein Heikal: "If the Israelis want to take Cairo, Damascus or Amman?and I pray to God they will try to do one or all of these things ?they will simply be absorbed. They are overextended now. The fourth round, if and when it comes, will...
...Republican army is no match for the Royalists' mountain tribesmen, who are the fiercest warriors in Yemen. Nor can the Republicans expect help from Nasser, whose last troops left in the middle of last week's fighting. Although the Cairo newspaper Al Ahram charged that the CIA was behind the Royalists, the government made it plain that it considers the fighting essentially a "domestic Yemeni affair." Thus, after years of stalemate, the Yemeni civil war appeared finally to be reaching the climax that Nasser's intervention had so long managed to delay-but not to deny...