This Month’s Features

• REAGAN’S PRIORITIES Two Hawaii-based writers look at the US administration’s sharply contrasting attitudes to Caribbean and Pacific affairs.. 11 • TRIBAL PEOPLE ON THE MOVE A special correspondent in Noumea reports on a new and remarkable movement for the recovery of tribal lands in New Caledonia 14 • THE NEW CALEDONIA PROBLEM Of all the problems existing in ‘Overseas France . New Caledonia is the toughest Daniel Tardieu tells why 19 • PACIFIC WOMEN IN PAPEETE Marie-Ther£se and Bengt Danielsson examine the profit and the loss in a recent South Pacific Commission-sponsored seminar on the problems facing women in Pacific Island communities 20 • THE FATE OF SEA WIND An Australian newspaper tells the grim story of the fate of an American couple who disappeared in 1974 from their yacht Sea Wind at beautiful Palmyra Island 23 •P APUA NEW GUINEA Lawyer Kevin Egan, who has a long background of PNG experience, returns to the country - and doesn’t like everything he sees 41 • H. J. M. Joseph Theroux concludes his two-part series on the remarkable life and times of Samoa’s ‘unconquerable’ Harry Jay Moors 59 • AN AIRLINE’S STORY Robert Keith-Reid in Suva takes a long look at the problems and promises facing Fiji’s flag-carrier Air Pacific 65

Books Cook Islands Deaths : 251*487 65V*33 French Polynesia 20

Hawaii .."...23

Irian Jaya 7, 45 Islands Press 18 Japan in the Pacific 29 Letters Micronesia 11

Nauru .IZZZZZ44

New Caledonia 14,19, 40 New Zealand in the Pacific ."...24’ 45 Noumea Notebook 19 Pacific Report ...,"...5 Papua New Guinea 7, 41, 45, 53

People Political Currents 41 Postmark Papeete Shipping schedules 79

Ships >3

Solomon Islands 15, 37

Sport ’l5

Ton 9 a 32 ’ 44 Torres Strait 7( 3 Trade winds ’95

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Tuvalu . 7,24 US in the Pacific 11 Vanuatu 26, 37,’ 49 Western Samoa 59

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