This Month’s Features

* + RA P u RELAT,ONS ,N THE PACIFIC Professor Ron Crocombe of the Uni /er sity of the South Pacific examines a recent book on race, class and rebellion in the South Pacific and tells why he finds its conclusions surprising 13 * POSTMARK PAPEETE - Bengt and Mane-Therese Danielsson, starting a reg ular column, describe the background to the violent death of banker's son Olivier Breaud 1 g • THE SERPENTS OF A BOGUS EDEN - A US court clamps down on land promoters who took tens of thousands of dollars from Tuvalu Islanders, but can the Islanders retrieve their money? 22 • H 0J h ™ E P ° R CHILE PRESIDENT - Demonstrations in Fiji against President nnocnet of Chile may have wider repercussions on Chile’s world relations 25 • NEW ZEALAND IN THE REGION - William Gasson in Wellington and PIM writers look at New Zealand’s growing role as a regional member of the Pacific community 3Q * dlm' 8 PAC,F,C Jud V Tudor continues her account of the 50 years recorded in PIM, coming to the sixties when the move to independence gathered strength in the colonies of the South Pacific 69 Cover: Hokule’a, replica of an ancient Polynesian voyaging canoe, arrives in Tahiti in April after a crossing from Hawaii using the navigation methods of the early Polynesians. Full report in yachting section. Photo: Teva Sylvain.

B <x>k» £ h,le 25, 79 Cook Islands 27, 61 Deaths Fifty Years of PIM 69 F, J' 23, 25 French Polynesia g Islands Press 8 5 Letters 5 New Hebrides ..."."..."..18, 21 New Zealand 21, 30-49 N, ue Pacific Report Papua New Guinea 21, 26, 27, 60, 79, 81

People Pitcairn 63 Political Currents 25 Postmark Papeete 19 Race Relations in the Pacific 13 Ships 87 Shipping Services 95 Solomon Islands 81 Tradewinds 79 Tradewlnds Intelligence 83 Travel 63 Tropicalities 21 Tuvalu 5, 22, 23 Western Samoa 28

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