This Month’s Features

• THE COMMONWEALTH The Commonwealth of Nations held this year’s heads of government summit in Australia, and emphasis was placed on Pacific regional affairs in the world scene. In a special report for PIM, Sue Green writes about the role of Pacific Island leaders at the talks 11 • THE POLITICS OF VIOLENCE As Melanesian independence pressures continue to trouble French authority in New Caledonia. Daniel Tardieu reports from Noumea on the killing there of Pierre Declercq, Secretary-General of the Union Caledonienne; Helen Hill describes how Declercq became known as ‘the friend of the Melanesians’; and PIM Associate Editor Malcolm Salmon outlines the problems faced by the French government in the wake of the killing 19, 21 • ANOTHER LEADER TOPPLED Hard on the heels of a change of government in Solomon Islands comes another change, this time in Tuvalu where Tomasi Puapua has defeated the foundation prime minister Toaripi Lauti 33 • TRAVEL Having a week-long look at tourism in New Caledonia Malcolm Salmon reports on two day-trips available from Noumea and on the interesting personalities responsible for them 53 • f MEMORIAL TO THE BURNS PHILP LINE - Judy Tudor, who says it's hard o tall in love with a container ship or a jumbo jet, reviews a new book on the Burns Philp cargo-passenger ships which were once a part of Islands life 45

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