NSW: The main stories in today's Sydney newspapers

AAP General News (Australia)
08-24-2001
NSW: The main stories in today's Sydney newspapers

SYDNEY, Aug 24 AAP - The main stories in today's newspapers:

The Daily Telegraph:

P 1: Exclusive - a victim of two youths jailed yesterday for rape tells how her attackers
taunted her and how she feels betrayed by the justice system.

P 2: Books promo.

P 3: The westerly winds in Sydney over the past week have left the skies unusually
clear; memory loss, far from striking late in life, creeps up on people from their mid-20s,
according to a University of Michigan psychologist; Clerks of the NSW Parliament have
written to MPs stating they cannot use their electoral allowance to pay for prostitutes,
floral arrangements, photographers or plain-clothes bodyguards.

World: An Australian man who faces up to 60 years in jail as the alleged mastermind
of a $1-million plant-smuggling ring yesterday told a California court he was innocent;
Hamas members vowed revenge yesterday after Israel attacked the Islamic group's suicide
bombing mastermind; A $30,000 reward has been offered for a computer left on a Singapore
Airlines flight to Hong Kong; Beating the Russians to a manned landing on the moon was
the prime motivation behind late president John F Kennedy's support for the space program,
a tape released yesterday revealed; The US Powerball jackpot rises to more than $560 million;
A former British MP and his wife yesterday carried out their threat to sue the woman who
has accused them of sexual assault.

Business: AMP boss admits the company "got it wrong" in a disclosure bungle which wiped
$2 billion off the company's share value; The profit season took centre stage yesterday
with blue-chip winners AMP, NAB and BHP just shading out the losers.

Sport: Sharks props have gained 7km on the field.

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