Word: amined
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When he nationalized his country's press 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...
...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...