The World - News from Feb. 28, 1988
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Sunni Muslim guerrillas in Lebanon, marking the 13th anniversary of their founder’s death, attacked outposts of the Israeli-backed South Lebanon Army militia, killing or wounding 10 soldiers. Guerrillas of the pro-Palestinian Nasserite Popular Liberation Army attacked a string of four militia bases east of Sidon to memorialize the anniversary of the assassination of its founder, Maarouf Saad. In another attack, unidentified gunmen in Sidon assassinated Suleiman Al Bour, 43, a Politburo member of the Lebanese branch of the ruling Arab Baath Socialist Party in Iraq.
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