WA: Main stories in today s The West Australian, April 1

AAP General News (Australia)
04-01-1999
WA: Main stories in today s The West Australian, April 1

PERTH, April 1 AAP - Main stories in today's edition of The West Australian:

P1: The Balkans war: Picture story of Rrustem Cerimi who lives in Perth. He says 13
relatives are either dead or missing in Kosovo's bloody conflict. Picture of a group of ethnic
Albanian refugees shown walking in mud and snow into Macedonia and a lady walking and feeding
her baby out of Kosovo.

P2: In the market for a millennium baby? A Perth hotel is offering a deal for couples who
want to procreate and, if they produce a January 1 baby, they will win $2,000.

P3: Four police officers who spent months under suspension because of allegations they were
corrupt will now try to get their lives and careers back on track with the ending of two court
actions yesterday.

WORLD: The US, Belgium, France and the UN Security Council were all warned about plans for
the 1994 genocide in Rwanda and could have prevented it, human rights groups said yesterday in
Nairobi. The violence that toppled former Indonesian president Suharto was recalled in a clash
in central Jakarta yesterday. A jury in San Francisco has ordered Philip Morris tobacco
company to pay $128 million to the family of a man who died of lung cancer after smoking
Marlboro cigarettes for four decades.

FINANCE: Futuris Corp has claimed a major marketing breakthrough unveiling a $500 million
deal in the US with General Motors. Singaporean developer Hai Sun Hup Group has emerged as the
successful tenderer to build a new multi-million-dollar office tower for Woodside Petroleum at
the western end of St Georges Terrace in Perth. The second leg of property developer Warren
Anderson's $25 million sale of farming land in the emerging Frankland River vineyard district
has collapsed. Australia's competition watchdog stuck a thorn in the $33.21 billion worldwide
merger of Rothmans and British American Tobacco by ruling it would breach Australia's Trade
Practices Act (AAP).

SPORT: Shane Warne and Ian Healy face the axe from the fourth Test team as the tourists try
to salvage their battered Frank Worrell Trophy campaign after losing the third Test by one
wicket in Bridgetown. AFL: Fremantle coach Damian Drum instructed his players to turn the
other cheek until the AFL can give the club a clear definition of what constitutes a melee.

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