VIC: Main stories in today s Melbourne newspapers

AAP General News (Australia)
04-03-1999
VIC: Main stories in today s Melbourne newspapers

MELBOURNE, April 3 AAP - The main stories in today's Melbourne newspapers are:

HERALD SUN:

PAGE 1: Thousands of refugees have been herded onto trains by Serbian soldiers and
transported to the Macedonian border in the past 24 hours.

PAGE 2: Dogs were used to search the Metropolitan Women's Correctional Centre yesterday
after three prisoners overdosed on heroin.

PAGE 3: Victorians donated more than 6.4 million to the Royal Children's Hospital Good
Friday Appeal.

PAGE 5: A British soldier captured during the Gulf War reveals what he believes the US
captives in the Balkans will be going through.

WORLD: A former Ukrainian sailor who murdered 52 people has been sentenced to death,
saying he had no regrets and saw himself as "a warning horror to mankind to live differently".

FINANCE: Up to 80 companies are believed to have missed an Australian Stock Exchange
deadline to reveal their vulnerability to the Y2K bug; American talk show host Oprah Winfrey
is set to become one of the biggest shareholders in broadcasting giant CBS.

SPORT: Injured footballer James Hird has vowed to make a return to AFL ranks.

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