This Month

• Bikini-Enewetak The tragic sequence of events since 1947 in these H-bomb-test-devastated Micro nesian islands is traced by American freelance writer Gifford Johnson 11 • The Region This month’s Sixth South Pacific Games in Suva previewed 18 • New Hebrides Vital new progress in sorting out the country’s political problems as it moves to indepen dence 31 • USA in the Pacific President Carter’s personal representative to the future status talks with Micronesia speaks in Hawaii of a ‘new constellation of relations in the Pacific’ 33 • Papua New Guinea A 15-page review by PlM’s Port Moresby correspondent Angus Smales of the state of the nation as it prepares for the fourth anniversary of its independence 41 •Fiji Sir Vijay Singh, attorney-general and one of his country’s most prominent politicians, seems to be fighting for his political life 31 • Western Samoa - Head of State Malietola Tanumafili II had some reassuring words for his coun trymen when he spoke at the celebrations for the 17th anniversary of independence 31 • Oil Fiji’s oil search is about to get under way in earnest 39 • Cook Islands Big hopes are pinned on plans to ‘reshape’ the Cooks’ agricultural production 91

Gerard Leymang, New Hebrides chief minis ter ... straight talking in an interview with Nabanga

Head of State of Western Samoa Malietoa Tanumafili ll ... saying a word for fa’a Samoa