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...Heikal's Fall. Any doubts about the scope of Sadat's power were settled last week when al Ahram, Egypt's most prestigious newspaper, appeared without the familiar column of Editor Mohammed Hassanein Heikal, 50. Heikal's "Frankly Speaking" column customarily appeared on Friday-the equivalent of a Western paper's Sunday issue -when al Ahram's circulation soared to 772,000. That increase was at least in part due to the column, since the Arab world read Heikal as the semiofficial spokesman of Cairo's government. Sadat not only fired Heikal from...
...Heikal's fall from the top of the 100-year-old al Ahram (The Pyramids in Arabic) had important political overtones. The granite-faced Heikal rose to power because of an early friendship with President Gamal Abdel Nasser. He was the spokesman and interpreter of Nasser and the Arab socialism that the late President introduced into Egypt; even after Nasser's death and Sadat's succession, Heikal and al Ahram retained a special status and authority. But in recent months Heikal's foreign policy pronouncements began to differ from Sadat's apparent aims. For instance...
Nightly Blackout. In contrast to gloom in Israel jubilation swept Arab cities. Everywhere Arab newspapers carried pictures of Israeli prisoners and the wreckage of vaunted Phantom jets. Al-Ahram Editor Hassanein Heikal quoted Soviet Ambassador to Cairo Vladimir Vinogradov as saying: "I have experienced sweet and bitter days, but this is the prime of my career in Egypt...
...merger idea will be put to the final test Sept. 1, when both countries will vote on it. At the moment, chances for the full merger that Gaddafi desires do not look promising. Wrote Mohammed Hassanein Heikal, editor of Cairo's influential Al Ahram and one of the few prominent proponents of merger: "I told a very sad Gaddafi not to despair, but to cling to his paradise...
...Muammar Gaddafi, the only hope lies in Arab unity, and he has gained an influential ally in Mohammed Hassanein Heikal, Nasser's old friend and policymaker and the editor of the Cairo newspaper Al Ahram. Heikal, who is somewhat estranged from Sadat but sees Gaddafi as a new force in Arab politics, takes considerable hope in the forthcoming Egyptian-Libyan federation. He believes that the new alliance will be strong enough to exert pressure, via the conservative Arab states and the U.S., to make Israel withdraw from the occupied territories...