SA: Main stories in today s Adelaide Advertiser

AAP General News (Australia)
12-14-1999
SA: Main stories in today s Adelaide Advertiser

ADELAIDE, Dec 14 AAP - The main stories in today's Adelaide Advertiser:

P.1 - Treasury officials have drawn up a list of debts to be paid off when the $3.5
billion power assets lease payment is paid to the state government.

P.2 - Australian babies have an alarmingly high exposure to tobacco smoke (AAP); The
former head of the state's Office of Asian Business, John Cambridge, made 22 overseas
trips in the past two financial years.

P.3 - Sportsgirl has been bought by the Melbourne-based Besen family.

World - A senior militia leader has ordered the disbandment of his anti-independence
forces (Atambua, Indonesia); Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has stood his ground
against the US and the EU in defence of Chechen military drive (Moscow).

Finance - British miner Billiton will intensify its search for mineral deposits in
SA by spending up to $6.8 million in a deal with Stuart Petroleum; The price of Arabica
coffee beans set to shoot up in price.

Sport - Australia shredded India's top order to have the tourists 5/76 and condemned
to an early death today.

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KEYWORD: FRONTERS SA

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