"Pacific Perspective" Due Soon

Unexpected printing delays have now been overcome, and the first issue of Pacific Perspective, a new biannual journal concerned with eco nomic, social and political affairs m the Pacific Islands, is due off the press shortly. Its editor, political scientist Sione Tupouniua of the Uni versity of the South Pacific, says that the response to the publication already has been encouraging Approximately $2,500 in subscrip tions has already been received, which is much beyond the expectations of the journal’s founders—a group of social scientists from various Pacific countries and territories.