This Month’s Features

• REBELLION IN THE NEW HEBRIDES PIM Associate Editor Malcolm Salmon looks at the events which have split the New Hebrides on the eve of independence as separatist groups make a bid for power 10 • IRIAN JAYA AND PAPUA NEW GUINEA A correspondent who has heard from the West Papua Freedom Organisation says the rebels believe the new Chan government in Papua New Guinea may show more sympathy towards refugees crossing its border 18 • WHO IS RUNNING FIJI? Complaints from a section of the significant Indian community in Fiji claim that Indians are not getting a fair share of the top positions in the civil service 19 • TRAVEL The new Pacific country of Tuvalu, almost completely overlooked as a tourist destination, is well worth a visit says Stephen Weinstein 29 • PIM’S PACIFIC Judy Tudor, continuing her series of 50 years of history presented in PIM, describes ‘comic opera, mayhem and backing and filling’ in the past decade 57 Cover: On the eve of independence the New Hebrides is beset by political problems, but this girl from Port- Vita and the carved slit gong behind her typify the people and the culture of the new country. Picture by Peter Lord.

Aviation 35 Books 49 Deaths 82 Fifty Years of PIM 57 Fiji 19, 67, 69, 73 Irian Jaya 18 Islands Press 53 Letters 5 New Hebrides 10, 17 Pacific Report 9 Palau 51 Papua New Guinea 18, 52, 67

People 23 Political Currents 18 Ships 72 Shipping Services 80 Solomon Islands 17, 72 Tonga 17, 67 Tradewlnds 67 Tradewlnds Intelligence 71 Travel 29 Tropicalitles 14 Tuvalu 5, 29 Western Samoa 49, 73

Yachts 74