This Month’s Features

• THE ENERGY CRISIS: Three writers, two from the Pacific and one from mainland USA, look at the effects which rising petroleum prices are having on Island communities, and suggest alternative energy sources 11 • FRANCE IN THE PACIFIC: Daniel Tardieu in New Caledonia and Marie-Therdse and Bengt Danielsson in French Polynesia discuss the Pacific impact of the forthcoming elections in metropolitan France 17 • GUNS FOR REBELS IN IRIAN JAYA: Papua New Guinea uncovers what appears to be a plan to get arms from communist sources and to them to anti- Indonesian rebels in Irian Jaya 31 • A MAN OF CONSEQUENCE: Malcolm Wright tells the story of Peter Simogun, his wartime comrade-in-arms in Papua New Guinea 51 • A FLAG OF CONVENIENCE: A shipping writer looks at the implications of Vanuatu’s decision to establish an international registry for shipping, and warns of the need to establish high standards 71

American Samoa 29 Australia in the Pacific 29, 45 Books 45 Cook Islands 25, 56 Deaths 17, 49, 81 Energy crisis 11 Fiji 9, 15, 33 France in the Pacific 7, 17, 18 French Polynesia 7, 26 Guam 33 Irian Jaya ...31 Islands Press 23 Letters 7 Micronesia 43, 73 New Caledonia 9 Noumea Notebook 17 Pacific Report 5

Papua New Guinea 25, 29, 31, 45, 51, 73 People Pitcairn Island 49 Political Currents 31 Postmark Papeete 18 Shipping schedules 75 Ships 14, 47, 71 Stamps 59 Tonga 63 Tradewinds 61 Tradewinds Intelligence 65 Travel Tropicalities 25 Vanuatu 9, 10, 71 Western Samoa 29, 31 Yachts 67 Yesterday 51