This Month’s Features

• NEW CALEDONIA AFTER MITTERRAND Robert Milliken visits the French territory and finds a high degree of confusion following the dramatic political realignments of recent months in France 13 • VANUATU’S YEAR Malcolm Salmon reviews the first year of independent Vanuatu and asks: Has the corner been turned? 14 • SAMOA STRIKE ENDS The marathon strike by Western Samoa’s public servants has ended, and no one is predicting its long-term effects 15 • POSTMARK PAPEETE Marie-Thdrdse and Bengt Danielsson analyse recent election results and find grounds for hope 19 • ‘UNCONQUERABLE’ HARRY MOORS Joseph Theroux traces the career of an American who played a memorable role in the history of Western 5am0a...51 • lAMBAKEY OKUK IN AUSTRALIA Angus Smales writes on an investment promotion visit to Australia by Papua New Guinea’s deputy prime minister, who had some new things to say 58 • PACIFIC’S NEWEST AIRLINE Detailed report on the deal between the Vanuatu Government and Ansett Airlines which in June brought Air Vanuatu into being 59

Books 41 Cook Islands 5 Deaths 73 Fiji 35,41 French Polynesia 18,21, 27 Irian Jaya 5 Letters 7 Micronesia 5 New Caledonia 13,17 Noumea Notebook 17 Pacific Report 5 Papua New Guinea 5, 58

People 35 Political Currents 27 Postmark Papeete 18 Shipping Schedules 70 Ships 67 Tradewinds 58 Travel 47 Tropicalities 21 Vanuatu 14, 59 Western Samoa 15,25,51 Yachts 61 Yesterday 51