Word: nasserism
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...issues in the talks among the members of Premier Golda Meir's Cabinet. On the Egyptian end, in contrast, he essentially dealt only with President Anwar Sadat. The Egyptian President has so improved his stature since taking uncertain control of the government on the death of Gamal Abdel Nasser in 1970 that he was able to accept or turn down every decision himself...
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...
...with his twin brother Mustafa of the rival al Akhbar, who only last month returned to Egypt from a nine-year self-imposed exile I in London. Amin, often attacked as too pro-Western, had refused to come home as a protest against the imprisonment of his brother by Nasser on charges of handing over state secrets to the CIA. Mustafa Amin was recently freed on Sadat's orders, together with a number of political prisoners. Among them was former War Minister Mohammed Fawzi, jailed in 1971 for allegedly attempting to overthrow Sadat...
...ease with which Sadat could topple Heikal or free old conspirators indicates how much popularity Egypt's placid President now enjoys. Sadat has skillfully neutralized all of the political opponents who challenged him for power in the hiatus that followed Nasser's death. But what finally propelled him to his current eminence was Egypt's successful prosecution of the October War with Israel. Sadat has now begun to utilize that power both at home and outside Egypt...
...Gamal Abdul Nasser's closest friends, Heykal had long been Egypt's leading theorist on anti-Israeli policy. His most important theory, articulated at the Khartoum conference of Arab states in December 1967, was the so-called two-stage strategy for destroying the Israeli state...