NATION/WORLD The Michigan Daily - Friday, September 20, 1996 - 5 .Israeli soliders killed in ambush House overturns Clinton's late-term abortion bill veto Los Angeles Times JERUSALEM - Israeli military jets and artillery bombarded suspected .errilla targets in southern Lebanon " esterday, hours after two Israeli sol- -diers were killed in an ambush that left eight others wounded. The incident, the most serious attack against Israeli troops in Lebanon since five soldiers were killed June 10, occurred against a backdrop of height- ened tensions between Israel and Syria and a flurry of U.S. diplomatic activity aimed at restarting the stalled Middle -East peace talks. * At least three guerrillas from the Shiite Muslim organization Hezbollah -also died in an exchange of fire with Israeli soldiers that followed the ambush near the village of Sojoud, an Israeli military spokesman said.. The Israeli army unit was patrolling the area on foot when it was ambushed, Israel television reported. Yesterday's casualties raise to 20 the umber of Israeli soldiers killed this ear by Hezbollah, which is seeking to oust Israel from the self-declared secu- rity zone it occupies along the uneasy border with Lebanon. After the morning attack, Israeli jets launched two air strikes against "firing positions for terrorists" near the village of Jabal Safi, the Israeli spokesman said. The army reported accurate hits on the planes' targets but gave no word on casualties in the air raids or the shelling that accompanied them. The latest flare-up occurred as Israeli Defense Minister Yitzhak Mordechai was meeting in Tel Aviv with U.S. peace envoy Dennis Ross, who arrived in the region this week to try to restart dead- locked negotiations between Israel and Syria and to push for more progress in talks between Israel and the Palestinians. "Any time you have this kind of fighting ... it creates a situation that obviously has its own dangers," Ross told reporters after he spoke with Mordechai about South Lebanon. "That is why I say, always, our interest is in defusing tensions. If you defuse ten- sions, you create a better basis for sta- bilization.... We want the negotiations to resume." The Washington Post WASHINGTON - The House voted yesterday to overturn President Clinton's five-month-old veto of legis- lation that would outlaw a contentious technique to end pregnancies in their late stages, putting the emotionally charged issue in the political spotlight just six weeks before Election Day. The 285 to 137 vote - four more votes than needed for the two-thirds majority required - was a largely symbolic victory for anti-abortion forces, as the Senate is unlikely to muster a similar majority to enact the measure into law over Clinton's objec- tions when it votes next week. "I suspect it will be hard to override it," Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott (R-Miss.) said yesterday. But the vote's political significance is much larger, as it allows Republicans to portray Clinton as an extremist on the question of the abor- tion procedure, which polls show is opposed by a large majority o f Americans. On the campaign trail GOP presidential nominee Bob Dole has pounded away at his support for the ban and Clinton's veto of it. The measure would outlaw what it calls a "partial-birth abortion," the term anti-abortion forces have given a proce- dure in which a woman's birth canal is widened and the fetus is removed feet first until only the head remains in .he woman's uterus. A doctor may collase .the fetus's skull so that the head can be drawn through the birth canal. The bill would subject doctors -who perform the procedure to fines and up to two years in prison. 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