This Month

• The Region How the forces lined up at a meeting of-the South Pacific Forum in Honiara on the delicate question of framing a resolution on France’s Pacific ter ritories 10 • President Giscard’s Pacific visit One word for New Caledonians, another for Polynesians 17 • Kiribati - Independent yes but still hogtied by some aid arrangements with Britain 23 • Japan in the Pacific A round-up of the present state of play in Japan’s varied and dynamic contri butions to the lives and development of Pacific Island nations 37 • Tuvalu - Prime Minister Toalipi Lauti talks frankly with PIM Editor Bob Hawkins about his country’s prob lems with fund-raising and development 18 • New Hebrides - Chief Minister Gerard Leymang and Deputy Chief Minister Walter Lini met French Presi dent Giscard d’Estaing in Noumea and gave him some ideas on their country’s future relationships with France 13 • Kwajalein - Occupation of parts of an important US missile testing range by protesting Marshallese land owners could have an impact on ratification by the US Senate of the SALT II agreement with the Soviet Union 19 • Nutrition The ‘winged bean’, native to Papua New Guinea’s Highlands and some Southeast Asian coun tries, could soar to stardom in the world fight against hunger 89

Afterthoughts 87 Australia 13,14,15,25,34 Banaba Books go Cook Islands 5,10,13,14,15,29,33,34,72 F, i i 13,15,32,34,37,41 French Polynesia 14,17,18,65 Guam Irian Jaya Islands Press Japan in the Pacific 37-72 Kiribatl 15,23,37,80 Letters Micronesia 19,40,75 Nau ™ 6,15

New Ca1ed0nia.6,10,11,13,14,15,17,18,22,32,67

New Hebrides 10,15,17,18,25,27,69 New Zealand 10,11,14,15,25,29,34 Niue 15,29,77 Norfolk Island 21,69 Northern Marianas 75

Pacific Report 7 p NG 5,10,11,13,14,15,20 22,27,28,32,33,34,37,47,83,89,91 People Political Currents... 17

Shipping 101

Solomon Islands 10,25,27,37,41,56,81,91 South Pacific Forum 10,25

Spc 6

Spe C 33,40

Tahiti 14,18 Tokelau Islands 6,29 Tonga 15,28,29,32,37,80,93 Tradewinds 89 Tradewinds Intelligence 92 Travel 75 Tropicalities 25 Tuvalu 10,15,18,32 Wallis and Futuna 18 Western Samoa 10,11,15,29 Yachts 93

Yesterday.. 83

PNG’s Ebia Olewale ...

spearheading discussion

on the French Territories

Kiribati’s leremia Tabai ... hogtied by Britain?