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...last May. U.A.R. President Gamal Abdel Nasser showed special tolerance for a pair of his oldest supporters-Cairo's weighty (476 lbs. between them) publishing twins, Mustafa and Ali Amin, 47. Though they were formally stripped of their ownership of Cairo's most popular daily, the jazzy Akhbar el Yom (News of the Day), the Amins were allowed to keep control of the paper's twelve-man editorial board and were saddled with only one government representative, Amin Shaker, 37, once Nasser's secretary. But last week the twins found themselves deprived of their property...
...Cardinal Sin. The Amin brothers' sin was not sedition but success. Like every other Cairo paper, Akhbar dutifully printed interminable Nasser speeches and daily photos of the dictator's dazzling grin. But it also continued to be the racy, mischievous paper that Cairo readers (except the puritanical Nasser) had learned to love. In Akhbar, Nasser's highly publicized visit to India last spring played second fiddle to a story with the banner head: MAD KILLER SHOT IN SUBURBS. Nasser was further irked by Akhbar's juicy coverage of Cairo society divorces. Against this formula, the official...
...twins' real trouble, however, began when Nasser-despite his reservations about Akhbar-chose Mustafa Amin to accompany him to the U.N. last fall. This deeply offended Government Watchdog Shaker, who had counted on the trip for himself. Setting out to undermine the Amins' popularity with their employees, Shaker told Akhbar's printers that they should no longer submit to the twins' "capitalistic exploitation" and grandiosely promised all staffers a 40% pay raise...
...unannounced early morning seizure, U.A.R. authorities abruptly nationalized four big Cairo publishing houses. Among Nasser's new possessions: a raft of magazines and weekly newspapers, and the two most influential dailies in the Arab world. Al Akhbar (the News) and Al Ahram (the Pyramids...
...Akhbar, best known of Cairo's dailies, is owned by the U.A.R.'s most prominent newsmen. Mustafa and Ali Amin, a beefy pair of identical twins. After Nasser's rise to power in 1954, the twins showed some independence from the regime, tended to side with the West during Nasser's pro-Soviet period. But under steady pressure from the government, Al Akhbar fell into obedient line...