This Month

• Tuvalu Prime Minister Toalipi Lauti has staked his country’s all with Blue Chip Realty Investments of California 42 • Health Specialists examine three aspects of health in the Pacific 9 • France in the Pacific Le Monde takes a studied look at Paris’s plans for France’s Pacific future.

It looks like the French intend to hang on to their colonies 19 • Travel In Papeete, when the tourism ‘experts’ got together, they forgot about the tourists and the Islanders 25 • Tonga Libya’s Colonel Gaddafi and Tonga’s king have done a deal 33 • New Caledonia Paris has sacked the local government council and put its own man in full control 37 . Fiji Ratu Mara wants to retire but not before he can leave a tidy ship of state 37 • Western Samoa Tupuola Efi has scraped back into power. His road ahead will be trodden more cautiously than before 41 • Pacific War Tonga’s Crown Prince reviews the latest history of the war in the Pacific 63 • Solomon Islands The agriculture scene looks promising but there are pitfalls to be watched 73

Advertisers' index 90 Afterthoughts 23 American Samoa 9 Aviation 79, 80 Books 61 Cook Islands 5,9, 11, 28 Deaths 68 Fiji 9, 37, 54, 75 French Polynesia 4,5, 19, 25, 33, 58 Gilbert Islands 9 Guam 9 Hawaii 33 Health 9 Islands Press 49 Letters 4 Micronesia 9 New Caledonia 4,9, 19, 37, 79 New Hebrides 19, 35, 41, 78 New Zealand 11 Niue 11, 31

Norfolk Island 45 Pacific Report 7 PNG 10, 23, 57, 58, 60, 63 People 50 Political currents 33 Shipping services 85 Solomon Islands 54, 64, 70, 73

Spc 38

The Region 9, 26, 61, 63, 79 Tokelau 11, 58 Tonga 11,33 Tradewinds 73 Tradewinds Intelligence 79 Travel 25 Tropicalities 54

Ttpi 7

Tuvalu 42 Western Samoa 33, 41, 57, 60. 79 Yachts 81 Yesterday 70

Tuvalu’s Toalipi Lauti... big spending In the United States.

Libya’s Gaddafi... a deal with Tonga’s King Taufa’ahau Tupou IV.