NSW: stories in today s newspapers

AAP General News (Australia)
04-03-2001
NSW: stories in today s newspapers

THE AUSTRALIAN.

Page 1 - An American spy plane remained stranded in southern China last night amid
rising tension between the two countries as the US blasted Beijing for denying access
to its 24 crew members.

Page 2 - The Reserve Bank board is likely to cut official interest rates by a quarter
of a percentage point today, despite signs that consumers may already be shrugging off
the worst of the economic slowdown.

Page 3 - OZTAM chief executive officer Ian Muir has quit only months after launching
the new television ratings system which has been beleaguered by difficulties from day
one. Paul Hogan faces a day of reckoning with teh world premiere of his third Crocodile
Dundee film.

World - Slobodan Milosevic exacted a guarantee from Serbian authorities that he would
not be immediately handed over to Western war crimes prosecutors before giving up his
armed resistance to arrest, it has emerged.

Business - Partners in teh North West Shelf gas project have committed to a $2.75 billion
expansion plan as the nation's biggest resources project explores new export markets in
Asia.

Sport - Collingwood player Chad Rintoul and Jason Norrish of Fremantle were both cleared
by the AFL tribunal last night.

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