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January 8, 1990

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a reporter at large

THE SHADOW OF SALADIN

Milton Viorst

REPORTER AT LARGE about Syria whose Pres. is Hafez al-Assad, whose dream, like Saladin's, has been to unite the Arabs drive the outsider from Islamic …