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Guerrillas kill Israeli-allied men in Lebanon ■ Hezbollah claims responsibility for rocket attack near Israeli border. BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) - Guerrillas killed two Israeli-allied militiamen in southern Lebanon on Tuesday and wounded a third, Lebanese security officials said. A militiaman from the South Lebanon Army was killed and another was wounded when guer rillas fired rockets at the Hardon military out post, two miles north of the Israeli border, offi cials said. Shortly afterward, an SLA militiaman was killed when a roadside bomb exploded while a patrol drove by near Houla village, 25 miles southeast of Hardon and a little over a mile north of the Israeli border. The Iranian-backed Hezbollah group claimed responsibility for the attacks. In a statement issued in Beirut, Hezbollah said its guerrillas ambushed a patrol outside Hardon as it attacked the outpost and two near by positions. It boasted about the Houla attack, saying its guerrillas infiltrated close to the Israeli border “despite the enemy’s security and military mea sures.” Lebanese guerrillas have been waging a campaign of bombings and rocket attacks in an attempt to drive Israel’s 1,500 soldiers and the 2,500-strong SLA militia from occupied south em Lebanon. Israel set up the zone in 1985 with the aim of guarding against cross-border guer rilla strikes. Seven Israeli soldiers and a dozen SLA militiamen have been killed this year. On Feb. 29, Hezbollah guerrillas killed five SLA militiamen in a bomb ambush in the occu pied zone. A Jan. 30 Hezbollah bombing killed the No. 2 SLA commander.* The latest attack kept up the pressure on the SLA, whose members face an uncertain fate after Israel announced Sunday it was ending the occupation of southern Lebanon by July. The Israeli Cabinet decision Sunday affirmed what Prime Minister Ehud Barak has been saying for months. A withdrawal from the zone without the agreement of Syria and Lebanon could leave the SLA and those who collaborated with Israel subject to revenge attacks by guerrillas or prosecution by the Lebanese government. The government and the guerrillas consider SLA members traitors who should be put on trial. Hezbollah on Monday warned countries where SLA members might be considering seeking refuge against allowing them in. In Jerusalem on Monday, Israel’s Supreme Court rejected a request for political asylum from SLA fighters. Israel has pledged not to abandon the militi amen or their families, but officials have refused to publicly detail safety arrangements. Last week, Israel’s deputy defense minister, Ephraim Sneh, said they would not be given asylum in Israel. go your own way, go dailrneb.com Newsmakers File Photo AN OFF-DUTY ISRAELI SOLDIER looks across the Israel-Lebanon border in Metulla, Israel, April 9,1998. The Israeli Cabinet voted Sunday to withdraw its soldiers by July from the self declared southern Lebanese security zone they have occupied for 15 years. k Design Your ^~~~i Newspaper is Summer HBe the summer editor of the Daily Nebraskan Applicants must ^^nave one year of newspaper experience, preferabl) at the Daily Nebraskan, be enrolled in at least six credit hours at UNL this spring, summer or fall, maintain a 2.0 minimum G.P.A., and not be or academic probation. Applications are available at the Daily Nebraskar office, basement of the Nebraska Union, and must be returned with up tc five clips by noon March 8. Join us and sample cuisine from around the world! DATE: March Q, 2000 TIME: 11:00 a.rn. to 3:00 p.m. LOCATION: City Union (Near Subway) THE REVOLUTION IS AT HAND! Send a message: Vote A-TEAM today! Question: Is this the next President of the ASUN? Answer: It will be, if you get out and vote today for A-TEAM presidential candidate Joel Schafer. Question: Is the A-Team stiU committed to its platform of abolishing credit-card solicitation on campus, reforming the ASUN, improving freshman orientation, cre ating an on-line voting process for student elections, and focusing on campus ecol ogy? Answer. You bet we are. • • •>- ■ * Question: Does the A-Team ever make reckless allegations it can't support with facts? Answer Absolutely not: The A-Team started this campaign on the high road and that's how we'll finish. The A-Team is about issues, not scare tactics or slander. Question: Mil voting for Empower cause the end of civilization? Answer: Yes, it wilt. 4 vote for Empower today is a vote for chaos and looting tomorrow. The A-Team isn't personalty worried about this because we live deep within the earth inside a concrete bunker, but others less prepared than ourselves are fating many decades of hunger and violence, rather simi lar to the anarchic wasteland portrayed in the film "Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome* starring Mel Gibson. This is a paid political advertisement of the A-Team Party. Christina Rie&selman, Treasurer. _ ASUN StBdcat Gmwwwt Run-off Elections March 8,2000. Keep us informed, letters@unl.edu ___;_