This Month

• Sixth South Pacific Games A success, but will they be the last of the extravaganzas? Results in full 9 • Cook Islands The curtain falls at last on the long running conspiracy trial drama 20 • Papua New Guinea The third parliamentary chal lenge in 13 months to Michael Somare’s leadership is easily beaten off 22 • Western Samoa Tupuola Efi survives the gravest challenge yet in his brief but remarkable career.. . 22 • Moruroa Atoll More on the fatal accident of July 6, and the nuclear explosion of July 25 23 • Palmyra Atoll ‘Paradise is not for sale’, the Fullard- Leo family tells Washington 23 • Fiji-A close look at the way Fiji’s tourist industry is headed 25 • Australia in the Pacific An overview of the Aus tralian presence, and reports from correspondents on the spot 31 • Agriculture Papua New Guinea faces big problems in growing import-substitution foodstuffs 79

Afterthoughts 66 Australia in the Pacific 31-60 Books 63 Cook Islands 20, 50 Deaths 87

Fiji 25, 45, 70

French Polynesia 23, 58 Islands Press 75 Letters 4 Lord Howe 71 Micronesia 63, 71 New Caledonia 54 New Hebrides 54 New Zealand 70

Pacific Report 7 Palmyra 23, 27 Papua New Guinea 22, 66, 79 People 67 Political Currents 22 Shipping Services 87 Solomon Islands 49-52, 63, 79 South Pacific Games 9-19 Tonga 53, 70 Tradewlnds 79 Tradewlnds Intelligence 81 Travel 25-29 Tropicalltles 70 Western Samoa 22

Yachts 83

The Cooks’ Sir Albert Henry ... ‘You’ve let your people down,’ said the judge

Western Samoa’s Tup uola Efl ... a grave chal lenge survived