This Month’s Features

• US in the South Pacific The problems of keeping a middle course 11 • An Official Assessment - A wider interest by the US in Islands affairs 14 • New Caledonia An American love affair 15 • New Hebrides The Yanks are coming? 17 • Solomon Islands A Peace Corps success story 17 • Norfolk Island Keeping up Thanksgiving ig • Papua New Guinea - 'A modest mission’ ' 19 • Cook Islands A far cry from Honolulu 1 9 • French Polynesia Americans, wave upon wave 22 • Fiji A cloud or two on the horizon 25 • Western Samoa - US not there yet 29 • Micronesia Questions on ‘free association’ 31 • American Samoa Synthesis politics 33 • Hawaii The Bishop Museum as a symbol 35 • US Aid What the US is doing and where 33 • ‘FSP’ Profile of a US-based aid body 37 •50 Years of PIM When General Douglas MacArthur was one of PlM’s heroes 40 • Guam Widening economic horizons 59 • Ships Fiji’s attack on inter-island shipping problems 72

Cover: Daughters Seepa, 17, and Jane, 8. of Albert and Jane AtuaTasi of Fagasa village Tutuila, American Samoa. Jane is in the third grade at St Francis School and Seepa in her senior year at Samoana High School. Both are active in the Fagasa Assembly of God Church Photo: H. Larry Biggers.

American Samoa 33 Books 55 Cook Islands Deaths 81 Fifty years of PIM 40 F, J i 25, 72, 73 French Polynesia 22 Guam 47 Hawaii 35 Islands Press co Letters 9 Nauru 7, 73 New Caledonia 15 New Hebrides 17

Norfolk Island is Pacific Report 7 Papua New Guinea 19, 55 People 65 Ships 72 Shipping Services 77 Solomon Islands 17, 73 Tonga 25 Tradewinds 59 Travel w 47 Tropicallties 69 US In the Pacific 11, 37, 38 US Trust Territory 31, 47, 73 Western Samoa 29

Yachts 73