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...only faith fit for a free Africa. Says one Cairo tract, printed in Swahili and other African languages: "Christian missionaries preach one wife to you in order to make your race diminish. Islam permits four wives." So all-corrupting was Christian colonialism's influence, says Mohammed Heikal, editor of Cairo's Al Ahram, that it has even caused good Arabic names to be debased and mispronounced. His examples: the name of Guinea's President, Sékou Touré, is a corruption of Sheikh el Tarika (meaning chief of tribe); Mali's President Modibo Keita...
...Nasser's Aswan high dam, and Nasser's propagandists, covering the boss's anxious retreat, put out the naive-sounding line that Arabs must distinguish sharply between bad local Communists and good Russians. Nothing in the Syrian unpleasantness, wrote Nasser's trained seal. Editor Mohammed Heikal of Al Ahram, must be allowed to affect "in any way the great victory we achieved in earning the friendship of the Soviet Union...
...Mohamed Heikal, 29, is editor in chief of Cairo's weekly Akher Sa'a ("Last Hour" -circ. 80,000) and one of the best newsmen in Egypt. With a long list of exclusive stories to his credit, he won Egypt's most coveted journalistic prize three times, last year was the first Egyptian newsman to visit Korea. Two months ago Heikal's magazine spoke out boldly against the secret government subsidies from previous regimes which Egyptian newsmen have long pocketed. He accused the Egyptian press of "servile flattery," an attitude that was welcomed by the members...
...Heikal's editorial touched off an ex plosion in the Egyptian press. The Press Syndicate, an organization (set up by law in 1941) to which all newsmen must belong, haled Editor Heikal before a disciplinary committee on charges of "committing an act infringing on [the Syndicate's] dignity." When the committee, composed of two judges, two government officials and one press representative, asked Heikal if he wanted a lawyer to defend him, he replied: "I am in no need of a lawyer. I came here to accuse. I don't consider myself to be accused of anything...
Last week Heikal, who has received more than 600 letters supporting his stand, refused to apologize and was ordered to trial early next month. Said he: "This is not a personal case. It is a case of freedom of the press. These huge irons felt by the Egyptian press were . . . self-imposed when newsmen accepted bribes...