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...that sent him scurrying back to Tripoli. Then Egyptian officials claimed that under questioning, Sareya admitted that last summer he had a long discussion with Gaddafi in Libya. These revelations triggered a Cairo press campaign against Gaddafi and led Ali Amin, editor of Cairo's influential newspaper Al Ahram, to call the Libyan ruler a "village idiot...
Heikal's Fall. Any doubts about the scope of Sadat's power were settled last week when al Ahram, Egypt's most prestigious newspaper, appeared without the familiar column of Editor Mohammed Hassanein Heikal, 50. Heikal's "Frankly Speaking" column customarily appeared on Friday-the equivalent of a Western paper's Sunday issue -when al Ahram's circulation soared to 772,000. That increase was at least in part due to the column, since the Arab world read Heikal as the semiofficial spokesman of Cairo's government. Sadat not only fired Heikal from...
Heikal's fall from the top of the 100-year-old al Ahram (The Pyramids in Arabic) had important political overtones. The granite-faced Heikal rose to power because of an early friendship with President Gamal Abdel Nasser. He was the spokesman and interpreter of Nasser and the Arab socialism that the late President introduced into Egypt; even after Nasser's death and Sadat's succession, Heikal and al Ahram retained a special status and authority. But in recent months Heikal's foreign policy pronouncements began to differ from Sadat's apparent aims. For instance...
...surprised by his abrupt removal from al Ahram. "I knew it was inevitable. But I felt that if I didn't speak out, I would be betraying my profession. Now I have expressed my viewpoint, and I have taken the consequences...
EVEN BEFORE HEYKAL's hasty departure from Al Ahram, Sadat had evidently decided to sweep this strategy out the door. From the very moment when Sadat came to power, his foreign policy has been one more of compromise than of confrontation. Coming in to the presidency three years after the Israelis seized the Arab lands, Sadat's problem was the daily humiliation of his people as they stared across armed lines at their own territories occupied by a foreign power...