Word: heikal
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...controversial as Egyptian President Anwar Sadat was alive, he has become no less so a year and a half after his assassination. In a new memoir, his disillusioned onetime adviser Muhammed Hassanein Heikal contends that Sadat had a humble-beginnings complex that caused him to live inordinately lavishly. The author says that Sadat popped a couple of vodkas daily despite his Islamic faith's liquor prohibition. The Egyptian government last month banned import of the book. Anwar's widow Jehan Sadat, 49, has not commented publicly on Heikal's charges, but she will provide a portrait...
...clean, firm and fair." The fundamentalists, in fact, approve of Mubarak's campaign against corruption, his proposal to curb luxury imports, and his studiously private family life. "Some of the militants think he is redeemable and that they can establish a dialogue with him," says Ibrahim. Explains Mohammed Heikal, the influential former editor of the daily al Ahram, who was among those Mubarak freed: "No self-respecting Egyptian can deny Mubarak his support when he says, 'Let us turn a new page,' and when he tells all forces that he is ready to accept their participation...
Meanwhile, in a bold effort to promote political reconciliation in the country, President Hosni Mubarak, Sadat's successor, last week released 31 prominent figures arrested by Sadat. Among them were five former Cabinet officials and Mohammed Heikal, a former editor of the daily Al Ahram. In an extraordinary gesture, Mubarak had them brought directly from prison to the presidential palace to meet with him. Said Heikal afterward: "This is a great thing. It is the first time a President receives freed political prisoners and talks to them...
...limited to those specific troublemakers. The net had simply been spread too wide for Sadat to argue that the campaign was anything but an across-the-board attack on the opposition. Also rounded up by police were a number of political figures and other notables-including Journalist Mohammed Heikal and the elderly head of the now-defunct New Wafd Party, Fuad Seraged-Din-who obviously had no connection with the incident in June. At the end of his address, Sadat ordered the suspension of seven opposition publications and the transfer of 67 journalists from state-owned newspapers and broadcasting services...
Egyptian police launched the roundup with late-night calls on leading political dissidents and religious militants. Mohammed Heikal, author, journalist and confidant of the late President Gamal Abdel Nasser, was roused at 3 a.m. at his summer villa in Alexandria and escorted -"gently," said an aide-to Cairo's Tora Prison. Sheikh Abdel Hamid Kishk, a blind fundamentalist preacher renowned for his rigid Islamic orthodoxy, was jailed for his vitriolic sermons against Copts. Five other Muslim imams were also arrested, along with seven activist members of the Coptic clergy...