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...Arab who understands the new terror-and deplores it-is Cairo Editor Mohammed Hassanein Heikal. Vacationing in Rome last week, Heikal observed: "Unfortunately, when people are desperate, they behave desperately. Many fedayeen have reached the point of desperation where they are determined not to permit the world one day's peace. The fedayeen are curbed for the moment, but they have more manpower, are better armed and better trained than ever before. The quality of their men is better, they are dedicated and perfectly willing to die if necessary. Those boys in Munich were prepared to kill. But they...
...last winter tossed out British forces in a show of independence, then abruptly invited them back when Britain upped its military rent. That hardly seemed to be Sadat's game. Perhaps even the Soviets did not know how it would all turn out. Al Ahram Editor Mohammed Hassanein Heikal, a friend of Sadat's, last week reported puzzlement in the Kremlin leadership over where the Soviets had gone wrong...
...Ahram Editor Mohammed Hassanein Heikal's weekly column is always the most provocative reading in Cairo, but even Heikal exceeded himself last week. Insisting that he was "not imagining things," Heikal reconstructed what he believed "had gone on" in the Kremlin when Soviet leaders learned that their forces were being expelled from Egypt. Excerpts...
Brezhnev also called for a reading on Libya's Muammar Gaddafi and internal pressures on Sadat by "hostile elements." "Gaddafi is a mystery to us," he was told by an Arab affairs specialist. To which Brezhnev, by Heikal's reconstruction, testily snapped: "We don't want questions from you. We want answers...
Battle of Destiny. Despite the deployment of troops, a blowup of the conflict between Syria and Jordan is still an extremely remote possibility. Far more worrisome would be the revival of hostilities at another Middle Eastern battleground, the Suez Canal. Last week Editor Hassanein Heikal wrote in Cairo's authoritative Al Ahram that Egypt's President Anwar Sadat had given Washington until early this week to produce diplomatic results with the Israelis. Did that mean Egypt would resume its "war of attrition" if decisive results were not forthcoming, particularly concerning an Israeli pullback from the canal...