CANBERRA FRONTERS

AAP General News (Australia)
04-13-1999
CANBERRA FRONTERS

CANBERRA, April 13 AAP - The main stories in The Canberra Times:

Page 1: The federal government demands the immediate release of an Australian aid worker
paraded on Serbian television as a spy (local); The Australian National University will
undergo a massive shake-up with a new university structure to be decided by August (local); A
looming fraud case involving up to 95 charges and witnesses from Florida and California will
leave the ACT Legal Aid budget in tatters (local).

Page 2: Prime Minister John Howard turns up the heat on the Senate to pass his GST by
reminding Australians in a televised address they remain among the world's highest personal
income tax payers (AAP).

Page 3: Mr Howard announces a special taskforce to strengthen coastal surveillance after a
boatload of illegal immigrants lands on a NSW beach (local).

World: India's test firing of its newest nuclear-capable missile seems certain to set the
volatile South Asian region on a dangerous nuclear-arms race, analysts say (Islamabad,
Pakistan, AP); NATO strikes Serbia's second largest city and industrial areas, returning to
sites already hard hit in an allied campaign to force Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic to
stop the fighting in Kosovo (Belgrade, AP).

Finance: Speculation Kerry Packer's Publishing & Broadcasting Ltd is in talks to dispose of
its magazine arm may be wide of the mark (Sydney, AAP).

Sport: Golfer Greg Norman is good a putting a brave face on his near-misses but this time
he really does not seem too upset (Augusta, Georgia, AAP).

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KEYWORD: FRONTERS ACT

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