NSW: The main stories in today s Sydney newspapers =3

AAP General News (Australia)
04-08-1999
NSW: The main stories in today s Sydney newspapers =3

SYDNEY MORNING HERALD:
Page 1: NATO dismissed Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic's unilateral ceasefire and
sent in more bombs and missiles; The head of the Catholic Church in East Timor, Bishop Carlos
Belo, last night backed a call for a popular insurrection in the former Portuguese colony
after Indonesian-backed militia massacred at least 25 Timorese villagers on Tuesday; Nearly
300 steel poles up to 11 metres long will be sunk into Bondi Beach to construct grandstands
for Olympic Beach volleyball, and public access to parts of the beach will be progressively
restricted in the seven months before the Games.

Page 2: NSW Premier Bob Carr put his Labor MP colleagues on notice, telling them he wanted
a new ethos in state parliament based on diligence, community spirit and problem solving;
Profile of the six new members of the ministry.

Page 3: A teenage boy accused of murder told a Supreme Court jury he felt no remorse for
killing the man who raped him; Doctors are so scarce in rural areas that some people wait
weeks to see their GPs, National Party deputy leader John Anderson said yesterday; Circular
Quay's "toaster" apartment building has helped Sydney pass New York in a survey of the world's
most expensive real estate areas.

WORLD: The United States and many European nations cannot agree on how best to help the
panicked ethnic Albanians flooding out of Kosovo; NATO announced on Tuesday it was
coordinating all transportation of food, relief supplies and medical care to the Kosovo
refugees, and airlifting them to temporary camps; Australia's Foreign Affairs Minister
Alexander Downer urged the Indonesian armed forces yesterday to disarm East Timorese
paramilitary groups in the wake of reported killings in Liquica.

FINANCE: NAB and ANZ bank surveys show the Australian economy continues to defy pessimists
and the Asian recession, with buoyant business confidence and signs of a strengthening market;
Ten Group posted a solid rise in earnings in the first half of 1998-99.

SPORT: West Indian captain Brian Lara has accused Australian fast bowler Glenn McGrath of
spitting in the direction of a West Indian batsman; the North Sydney rugby league club's drugs
policy is to be ratified at the next board meeting; The Australian Rugby Union extended
Wallaby coach Rod Macqueen's contract by two years.

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