WHO NEEDS TICKETS? PLENTY AVAILABLE FOR 2000 OLYMPICS

          SOCOG officials revealed over the weekend that it still
     must sell 2.7 million tickets for the September Games to
     "meet its ticket-revenue target" of US$118M, according to
     Magnay & O'Rourke of the Melbourne AGE, who noted that only
     500,000 tickets worth US$29.5M were sold in the "last phase
     of a troubled ticketing campaign."  Magnay & O'Rourke wrote
     that "in a desperate bid to shift the remaining" tickets,
     SOCOG will sell seats through a "special ticket hotline,
     four box-office outlets and via the Internet" (Melbourne
     AGE, 6/11).  In N.Y., John Shaw wrote that Sydney organizers
     are "becoming as nervous ... [as] they are finding the last
     warmups for the event harder than anything that has come
     before."  Ticketing, transport links and "hiring enough
     hands to do everything remain difficult hurdles."  SOCOG Dir
     David Richmond said, "It will be a challenge to sell all the
     remaining tickets" (N.Y. TIMES, 6/11).