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You are quite right. I had never noticed it was missing.
Without this option, the editor will insert additional BRs between TRs if you paste a formatted table - i.e. the table code has natural line breaks.
If you paste the HTML all in one line, it seems to work, however stripping out line breaks would be tedious if you have a lot of tables to add.
I would replace the XOOPS editor in News with one of the WYSIWYG editors and see if that is an improvement. You should find instructions here on Xoops.org somewhere.
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