NSW: Main stories in today s newspapers = 2

AAP General News (Australia)
12-28-1999
NSW: Main stories in today s newspapers = 2

THE AUSTRALIAN

Page 1 - Deadly standoff as hijackers threaten to begin killing 160 hostages on an
Indian Airlines plane while security forces in Afghanistan prepare to storm the terrorists;
Nokia sailing to victory in Sydney to Hobart race; At least 125 people reported killed
in clashes between Muslims and Christians in eastern Indonesia.

Page 2 - Flooding in Victoria; Man charged with riding pushbike while drunk.

Page 3 - Crisis foreshadowed if so-called "scan scam" implicates a quarter of Australia's
1,100 radiologists; Most of Australia's analogue mobile network to shut down at midnight
on Friday.

Page 5 - Peter Collins' chance of a Liberal leadership return are dead; Queensland's
Beattie government has lost its lead to level-peg with Opposition, according to the latest
Newspoll; Aboriginal protesters vow to remain outside Adelaide's Government House to fight
uranium mining.

World - Chechen rebels hold up to heavy artillery bombardment from Russia; Europe suffers
heavy casualties from fierce storms; Albert Einstein named Person of the Century by Time
Magazine.

Finance - Millions of Australians get online with the Internet; BHP confident of shifting
iron ore employees from unionised to individual contracts.

Sport - A new record is about to be set for the Sydney to Hobart yacht race while competitors
have been banned from dealing with the media without permission from race organisers;
Indian fast bowler Venkatesh Prasad fined for showing too much excitement after dismissing
Michael Slater.

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