This Month’s Features

• PACIFIC AFFAIRS The 20th South Pacific Conference was held in Port Moresby in October. PIM Editor Angus Smales was there, and files an exclusive report 11 • UNITED NATIONS For the first time the UN agency, the Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific, has an office in a Pacific Island country. Peter Cummins reports on the opening of an ESCAP liaison office on Nauru 17 • BUSINESSMAN VINDICATED One of the biggest civil actions in Papua New Guinea’s history ended with the complete clearing of the plaintiff and an award to him of more than $5OO 000 against the company he created in the first place 21 • THE TERRIBLE BARON’ Bengt Danielsson, experienced in unorthodox ocean crossings himself, has what looks like being the last word on the windsurfing exploits of Baron Arnaud de Rosnay. His conclusion? The baron was ‘an honest cheat’ 25 • BOOKS Bengt Danielsson reviews a new work on the 1976 journey of the Hokule’a, which attempted to reproduce the conditions of the Polynesian navigators of yore with results that were sometimes amusing, sometimes almost disastrous 43

Books 43 Cook Islands 31 Deaths 63

Escap 17

Fiji 29, 33 French Polynesia 25, 55 Islands Press 23 Kiribati 51 Letters 7 Micronesia 29, 31, 33 Pacific Report 5 Papua New Guinea 21, 31, 41, 45 People 57 Pitcairn Island 27 Political Currents 35

Postmark Papeete 55 Shipping Services 71 Ships 67 Solomon Islands 47 South Pacific Conference 11 Tonga 27, 61 Tradewinds 61 Tradewinds Intelligence 63 Travel 47 Tropicalities 27 Tuvalu 51 US and the Pacific 35 Vanuatu 29, 37 Yachts 65 Yesterday 51