ACT: Main stories in today s Canberra Times

AAP General News (Australia)
08-16-2000
ACT: Main stories in today s Canberra Times

CANBERRA, Aug 16 AAP - The main stories in today's Canberra Times newspaper:

Page one: Labor Party's national executive to hold an emergency meeting tonight to
consider overturning Opposition Leader Kim Beazley's position on IVF. Russia's navy launches
a rescue bid for 116 sailors trapped at the bottom of the Barents Sea in a nuclear-powered
submarine. ACT Attorney-General Gary Humphries does not rule out an inquiry into the Saudi
diplomat murder case. Parents say ACT schools fast losing natural advantage as funding
growth falls behind states. Inquiry under way after two hospital incidents involving toddlers
in Perth.

Page two: Federal government to introduce legislation banning Internet gambling for 12 months.

Page three: Former NSW parliamentarian Keith Enderbury dies after suffering burns to
90 per cent of his body in a house fire.

World: US President Bill Clinton says he's leaving a richer, better America to pass
on the presidency to Al Gore. One hundred North Koreans embrace Southern relatives they
had not seen for 50 years.

Finance: Rupert Murdoch's $9 billion US TV station acquisition receives hot and cold
responses on Australian share markets. Institutional investors finally join the rush for
NRMA Insurance Group shares with the company to be included in the S&P/ASX indices.

Sport: Canberra Cosmos wins approval of its administrator to proceed with preparations
for the coming NSL campaign. Australian cricket captain Steve Waugh says international
cricket redemption and its future can begin this week with the Super Challenge one-day
series against South Africa.

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