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...indulged in "irresponsible and suspicious acts." But political opponents of Sadat's regime charged that the President was exploiting the issue of religious strife to silence critics of Egypt's peace treaty with Israel and of endemic problems such as inflation, corruption and housing shortages. Said Khaled Mohieddin, leader of the leftist National Progressive Unionist Party: "Everyone who reads the names of the detainees will understand the aim of the campaign...
...Star of David flew above Cairo last week, though few Egyptians seemed to take much notice. While a group of 50 American tourists cheered, Israel opened an embassy in a two-story residence at 23 Mohieddin Abu el Ezz under the terms of its peace treaty with Egypt. "From this moment," said Syrian-born Charge d'Affaires Yosef Hadass, 52, who spoke to the small crowd in Hebrew, Arabic and English, "Israel has its house in Egypt, and within a few days, Egypt will have its house in Israel...
...most outspoken of the opposition parties is the National Progressive Unionist Party, a grouping of Marxists and socialists led by Khaled Mohieddin, who was known as the "Red Major" when he was a member of Gamal Abdel Nasser's Revolutionary Command Council. Among the leftist charges: much of the $10 billion given to Egypt by Saudi Arabia and other oil-rich Arab states since 1973 has never reached the people; a bribe of $1.5 million was paid to a government official to get a hotel project started near the Pyramids; the army sold a plane, a gift from another...
...Item: Hassanein Heikal, editor of Cairo's Al Ahram and Minister of Guidance (information), printed a eulogy to Nasser written by the moderately pro-Western Zakaria Mohieddin. That gave rise to speculation that Heikal was seeking to retrieve Mohieddin from obscurity. Once one of Nasser's intimates, Mohieddin's name had not even been mentioned in the Egyptian press since he fell out with Nasser in 1968 over economic policy and Egypt's increasing reliance on the Soviets...
...Item: Rumors from Cairo insisted that Nasser on his deathbed had designated Mohieddin his heir, which was not likely...