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<text id=93TT2158>
<title>
Sep. 06, 1993: Death Revealed:Salah Jadid
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<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1993
Sep. 06, 1993 Boom Time In The Rockies
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<article>
<source>Time Magazine</source>
<hdr>
MILESTONES, Page 17
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<body>
<p> DEATH REVEALED. SALAH JADID, 63, former Syrian strongman and
one of the world's longest-held political prisoners, jailed
for the past 23 years; of a heart attack; in Damascus. Having
seized power from a more moderate faction of his own Baath Party
in 1966, Jadid was ousted four years later by a Baath ally turned
rival, Hafez Assad, who remains Syria's President. Assad moved
against Jadid following the 1970 defeat of Syrian forces that
Jadid had sent across the border to help Palestinians fight
King Hussein of Jordan. Jordanian units crushed the Syrians
when Assad, then Defense Minister, refused to give them air
cover.
</p>
</body>
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