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...Cairo Publisher Mustafa Amin reported exuberantly that his nation's new revolutionary regime was the first "honest, democracy-loving government in 5,000 years of Egyptian his tory." Nasser soon proved him wrong, but for years the personable, pro-Western Amin remained close to Egypt's strongman. He was sent to Beirut on a top-secret mission to seek an end to the Suez war, served as Nasser's adviser on a trip to the U.N. In 1962, long after all Cairo papers had been nationalized, Nasser signed a decree restoring him as publisher...
Bugged Buick. The Egyptians say that Amin collaborated with Bruce Taylor Odell, a political attache in the U.S. embassy in Cairo. Nasser's security police say that a year ago they tailed Odell to a small apartment in suburban Heliopolis, where he met Amin. They installed hidden microphones throughout the apartment, then, for good measure, bugged Amin's home on the other side of Cairo and a midtown apartment he allegedly used for love affairs. They even bugged his black Buick limousine...
...Egyptians tell it, Amin met Odeli at least once a week, and was well paid for his work. A man with expensive appetites, he was living far beyond his $14,000 newspaper salary, and in addition had transferred thousands of dollars to his twin brother Ali in London. The end came when Amin rented a summer villa overlooking the Mediterranean at Alexandria. Police planted intelligence agents among his servants, closed in when Odell, who had rented a villa nearby, showed up for lunch fortnight ago. Amin was jailed, and Odell was questioned for an hour, forced to turn over what...
Asifa is the military arm of a group called El Fatah, which is a reverse acronym standing for the Arabic words Harakat Tahrir Falastin (Movement for the Liberation of Palestine). By itself, El Fatah means "Conquest." One of El Fatah's top leaders is Haj Amin Husseini, the former Grand Mufti of Jerusalem. Since the first of the year, Asifa claims to have made 13 raids into Israel to commit acts of "strategic sabotage," that is, the dynamiting of reservoirs and kibbutz buildings...
...anyone else had said what Nasser said today, Arabs would have branded him a traitor to the cause. But Nasser says it, and we accept it." Not everyone agreed. The Baathist regime in Syria persisted in calling for mass action against Israel. At a Damascus rally, Syrian Strongman Amin Hafez sneered at Nasser as "the self-proclaimed pioneer of Arab nationalism." Cried Hafez: "What is he waiting for? I went to the first Arab summit 18 months ago under the impression that the conference would lay down plans to liberate Palestine. Instead we were faced with a plan to divert...