This Month’s Features

• A QUIET PACIFIC WAR Seona Martin reports on the work of Suva’s P. J.

Twomey Hospital, headquarters in the war against leprosy in the Pacific 13 • HIGH DRAMA IN TONGA A King’s Proclamation officially annuls the marriage to a commoner of his son, second in line to the throne 15 • THE TERRIBLE BARON Marie-Therese and Bengt Danielsson report on the strange doings of the windsurfing wunderkind Baron Arnaud de Rosnay 18 • TROPICALITIES A geo-stationary satellite now links lecturers at the University of the South Pacific in Fiji with extension students throughout the Pacific 21 • VANUATU Two specialists write on aspects of the politics of the new nation as it lives through its first months of independence 27 • THE NUCLEAR DEBATE Opposition to Japanese plans to dump nuclear waste in the Pacific grows, and a forum in Sydney calls on the Australian Government to end its alignment with nuclear powers 35 • YESTERDAY Ken James recalls the cycling fever which gripped Fiji for a few hectic years at the turn of the century 47 • FIJI One of the Pacific’s most important nations entered its second decade of independence on October 10 51 • TRAVEL A traveller reports on a cruise in the Chinese vessel Minghua and finds it, in PlM’s Mandarin, hen hao, or ‘very good’ 55 • TRADEWINDS Ruth Lechte of Fiji went to Sydney for a recent Pacific petroleum congress and found that most people who think about petrol don’t think much about the Pacific Islands 61 Cover: The Woodlark Islands in Papua New Guinea were the scene for this appealing study by Bengt Danielsson.

Books 43 Communications 21 Deaths 73 Fiji 47, 51 Health 13 Islands Press 59 Letters 7 Micronesia 22 Nuclear debate 35 Pacific Report 5 Papua New Guinea 25, 45 People 40 Petroleum Conference 61

Political Currents 27 Postmark Papeete 18 Shipping Services 71 Ships. Held over this month for space reasons Solomon Islands 25 Stuart Inder’s Pacific 17 Tonga 15, 44 Tradewinds 61 Tradewinds Intelligence 65 Travel 55 Tropicalities 21 Vanuatu 27, 29 Yachts 63

Yesterday 47