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...censor-dominated world of Arab journalism, there are some things one just does not do. Like dismissing Nasser's Arab Socialist Union as a "do-nothing organization," or belittling Arab commandos for shedding "more ink than blood," or ridiculing Egyptian "diplomats who are doing nothing but buying cars, or ties and perfume from Paris." One man not only writes such things but also gets away with it. In addition to being editor and voice of Egypt's biggest and most authoritative newspaper, AI Ahram (The Pyramids), Mohammed Hassanein Heikal happens to be Nasser's closest confidant, adviser...
Ease Off. His intimacy is such that he can blithely riffle through the "In" box in Nasser's office. A word from him, and a journalist or foreign businessman gets an interview with the U.A.R. President. When a research employee was jailed for reporting critically on Egypt's economy, Heikal not only got the man freed and the report released but also forced Intelligence Chief Amin Huweidi to write a letter-to-the-editor explaining why he had tried to suppress the report in the first place. Lamented Huweidi later: "Centers of power are supposed to have been...
Despite the new scope of struggle, there is some evidence that Egypt's President Gamal Abdel Nasser is caught between conflicting pressures. On the one hand, he must appease his more zealous army officers, who are impatient for action against Israel, and he may need to demonstrate his independence in the face of Soviet counsels of caution. On the other hand, there are evanescent but tantalizing indications of counterpressures on Nasser from some army officers and middle-class bureaucrats who are weary of Egypt's bearing the main burden of the Arab cause. These men have begun...
...Egypt first" feeling is shared, but the proponents of a separate peace have so far been unable to make a noticeable dent in Nasser's foreign policy. During four months of talks in Washington, the U.S. had won from the Soviets a tacit agreement to let Israel and Egypt work out their new borders themselves. But after Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko visited Cairo last month, Russia switched its stance and in a hard-lining note delivered two weeks ago echoed Arab demands for total Israeli withdrawal on all fronts to prewar lines. The Soviets also called for demilitarized...
...same time, the guerrillas have forced Israel to maintain its military force at full strength. Ironically, in the course of their war, the fedayeen have also set themselves on a possible collision course with some of the Arab governments who sponsor them. For while Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser now only talks about forcing the Israelis to withdraw to prewar frontiers, the commandos still insist that their goal is the destruction of Israel and the recovery of Palestine...