NSW: Main stories in today s Sydney newspapers

AAP General News (Australia)
04-17-1999
NSW: Main stories in today s Sydney newspapers

SYDNEY, April 17 AAP - The main stories in today's Sydney newspapers are:

THE DAILY TELEGRAPH:

Page 1: Profiteering tradespeople who have raised their prices by up to 2,000 per cent to
repair hail-damaged homes will be pursued by government investigators today.

Page 2: Victorian-based Tabcorp launches a $1.3 billion bid to buy Sydney's Star City
casino; Cable & Wireless Optus yesterday launched a $1.5 billion takeover bid for AAPT.

Page 3: Samira Pratt, the wife of aid worker and accused spy Steve Pratt detained by
Yugoslavian authorities, pleas for her husband's release.

WORLD: A 71-year-old man yesterday opened fire in a Mormon Church library in Salt Lake
City, killing two people and wounding five others, and was fatally shot by police; Three
Australian women trapped inside a Salt Lake City Mormon library when a gunman opened fire
yesterday said they recalled the Port Arthur massacre and wondered if they would make it out
alive; Indonesian troops killed two armed seperatist in a shootout in East Timor, the military
said yesterday; Pakistan's former prime minister Banazir Bhutto pledges to return home to
appeal against her conviction on corruption charges there.

FINANCE: Tabcorp Holdings has made a $1.11 billion ($1.11 billion) bid to take over
Sydney's Star Casino; Telecommunications giant Cable & WWireless Optus yesterday bought 10 per
cent of Australia's third-biggest telecommunications company AAPT and launched a $1.5 billion
takeover bid; Nissan, Japan's second-largest carmaker, will not pay a dividend for the first
time in nearly half a century.

SPORT: Sydney City's 28-16 win over North Sydney last night may prove disastrous for New
Zealand's Test chances next week.

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