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• 21st SOUTH PACIFIC CONFERENCE - Angus Smales was in Port-Vila in October to cover the 21st South Pacific Conference. He reports on the alarm expressed by member governments at the cost of the various regional organisations.

Papua New Guinea’s radical proposal that they should all be rolled into one by next year (or as soon as possible thereafter), reiterated opposition to French nuclear testing and Japanese plans for nuclear-waste dumping in the Pacific and, finally, some good news for Islands women 13 • DECISIONS Decisions of the South Pacific Conference in detail 14 • FRENCH POLYNESIA Marie-Therese and Bengt Danielsson give a full run down on the recent visit of an interesting new French Government minister in an interesting new portfolio, Louis Le Pensec, France’s Minister of the Sea 18 • KANAK AND CALDOCHE Noted French historian Professor Jean Chesneaux writes exclusively for PIM on what he sees as the happiest possible future for New Caledonia’s multi-racial society 24 • MICRONESIA Jerry Burris reviews recent talks at Maui, Hawaii, between US and Micronesian representatives, and finds that the US appears interested above all in the defence aspects of its future relationship with regional governments ..29 • FIJI SUGAR L. M. Sherwood, a veteran of the Fiji sugar industry, reviews a new book on its history 43 • TRAVEL Malcolm Salmon concludes a two-part series on a tourist trip to New Caledonia. He writes on a visit to the Isle of Pines, and comments on the prospects and problems of the territory’s tourist industry 51

rp r? tU L e N °J tOC surehow t 0 take the apparition, a local man makes a running inspection of the Spirit of the Dead as it comes alive at Vamcolo, Milne Bay province, Papua New Guinea. Bengt Danielsson

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Pacific Report 5 Papua New Guinea 9, 37, 47 People 37 Political Currents 24 Postmark Papeete 18 Shipping Schedules 69 Ships 45, 51 Solomon Islands 45, 47 South Pacific Conference 13 Tradewinds 53 Travel 51 Tropicalities US in the Pacific n, 29 Vanuatu 31 Western Samoa 10, 40, 41 Yachts 63