CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN

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• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 13, 2003
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: February 4, 1974
• Content Type: REPORT

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February 4, 1974
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EGYPT: Sadat dismissed Haykal as editor of Al-Abram
probably in order to muzzle the increasingly obstrep-
ez-ous journalist. (Page 5)
GRENADA: Premier Gairy reneges on mediation with
political opponents. (Page 9)
FOR THE RECORD: (Page 10)
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EGYPT: President Sadat's decision this weekend
to dism-iss Muhammad Hasanayn Haykal as managing edi-
tor and chairman of the board of Al-Ahram and appoint
him presidential press adviser is probably designed
to :muzzle the increasingly obstreperous journalist,
whose columns have often erroneously been judged to
reflect Sadat's thinking. There is same question
whether Haykal will readily agree to being "kicked
upstairs"; press reports indicate that he will
turn down the advisory post.
Sadat may come in for some criticism from the
intellectual establishment at Al-Ahram for appointing
Deputy Prime Minister and Information Minister Hatim
as board chairman. Hatim was involved in the removal
a year ago of several leftist writers from Al-Ahram
and, despite their reinstatement, he is not popular
with the press.
Ali Amin, Haykal's replacement as managing editor,
is highly respected in press circles. He returned
last. week from nine years of self-imposed exile
which followed-the arrest in 1965 of his brother on
charges of espionage, allegedly in collusion with the.
CTA. The brother, also a journalist, was released
last week, and both have since received widespread
praise in the Cairo press.
Sadat may hope to mollify his opponents in
Al-Ahram by appointing Amin, and at the same time to
signal through Hatim's appointment that freedom to
oppose the government, as Haykal had recently done.,
will not be countenanced.
Haykal has had his differences with Sadat for
years. Although frequently assumed to be a spokesman
for the President, he has in fact been his own man
since the death of his patron, Nasir. Since the
cease-fire of October 1973, Haykal has consistently
shown pessimism about prospects for peace and skep-
ticism about U5 intentions--attitudes that run counter
to Sadat's own position and actions.
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Haykal's latest onslaught came in his weekly art-
cle on February 1, which he devoted to an attack on US
Middle East policy. His statement that this policy
has not altered was a direct contradiction of 5adat's
recent, oft-repeated public assertions that US policy
has indeed changed and that there should be some
reciprocal gestures from the Arabs.
Apparently still smarting over the :Loss of the
status he enjoyed when Nasir was alive, Haykal tends
now to oppose policies simply because he played no
part in their development. His latest articl
have precipitated Sadat's move against him.
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GRENADA: According to press reports, Premier
Eric Gai'ry has withdrawn his agreement to the media-
tion of political differences with his rivals, thus
destroying hopes for defusing the tense situation.
This reversal came after a Caribbean Council of Churches
mediation team had arrived on the island. and moderate
oppositionists, although skeptical of Gairy's sincerity,
had decided to try for an agreement,
The radical oppositionists now feel their distrust
of the Premier has been vindicated. They have been
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Venezuela: After three days of meetings with
officials of Central American countries which are
suffering from the Arab oil cutback, Caracas announced
it would give these countries preferential treatment
in oil supplies-but not in prices. The oil .supplies
reportedly will come from royalties paid in crude to
the Venezuelan Government by foreign oil companies.
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*These items were prepared b~ CIA without consultation
rait,h the Departments of State and Defense.
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