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==Downfall and death==
In 1970, when [[Black September|conflict]] erupted between the [[Palestine Liberation Organization]] (PLO) and the [[Jordanian Armed Forces|Jordanian army]], Jadid sent Syrian-controlled [[Palestinians|Palestinian]] troops of the nominally PLO-run [[Palestine Liberation Army]], based in Syria, into Jordan in order to help the PLO. This action was not supported by Assad's [[right-wing politics|right-wing]] Ba'ath faction, and the troops withdrew. The action helped trigger the simmering conflict between Jadid's and Assad's wings of the Ba'ath Party and army. The [[Syrian Communist Party]] aligned itself with Salah Jadid. The Soviet ambassador, [[Nuritdin Mukhitdinov]] was drawn in the power struggle. Hafez al-Assad was angered by [[Soviet Union|Soviet]] influence in Syrian politics, so he decided to scare the Soviets by sending [[Mustafa Tlass]] to [[Beijing]] to procure arms and wave [[Mao Zedong|Chairman Mao]]'s [[Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung|Little Red Book]].<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6zk7AAAAIAAJ&
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