Officials reported today that Syrian soldiers staged two infiltrations into the Golan Heights this morning. One group of 10 soldiers, spotted west of the cease-fire line in the southern section of the Heights, opened small arms firs at Israeli troops. The fire was returned and the invading soldiers retreated across the border into Syria. Later, a Syrian soldier was seen on the Israeli side of the line and Israelis fired at him. The two incursions were the first by Syrian military units in long time although some shells were fired across the line last week. These, however, the officials said, might have been from Arab terrorists. Later an Israeli patrol on the northern sector of the Heights found two anti-vehicle mines and an explosives charge on a road. The mines and explosives were defused. There were no Israeli casualties in any of the incidents. Yesterday, terrorists planning to sabotage a telephone pylon near Hebron were killed by their explosives, officials reported.
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