The Month

• THE PAPUA NEW GUINEA ELECTIONS Stuart Inder reports from Port Moresby on the party-forming and other activities now under way as PNG readies up for general elections in June 13 • VANUATU A planned visit to Port Vila of two warships of the US Seventh Fleet founders on the twin rocks of the Vanuatu Government’s policy of support for a nuclear-free Pacific, and US policy of refusal, ever, to confirm or deny whether its warships are carrying nuclear weapons 17 • NEW CALEDONIA Dramatic and rapid changes in political alignments are taking place in New Caledonia as the Mitterrand government’s reform policies come closer to biting 18 • WESTERN SAMOA Ruth Gurnani-Smith, recently in Apia, describes an important court case going on there in which Samoan-style tradition is being challenged in the name of individual rights 19 • ARCHAEOLOGY Marie-Therese and Bengt Danielsson describe some remarkable archaeological discoveries made over recent years in French Polynesia, and call for an end to the present French official indifference to them 20 • HISTORY: THE KIAP STORY Max Orken, himself a former patrol officer with the Australian administration in pre-independence Papua New Guinea, reviews James Sinclair’s new work, Kiap, the most substantial study written to date of this notable band of men 39 • TELEVISION AND THE SATELLITE REVOLUTION After many years of indecision Papua New Guinea has decided to establish a television service, encouraged by the development of new satellite technology. Meanwhile the same technology is about to give PNG and several other Island countries access to Australian TV broadcasts. And from Hawaii Paul Addison reviews the growing network of cable and satellite links in the Pacific 51

Australia in the Pacific 53 Books 39 Cook Islands 45 Deaths 65 Fiji 9, 23, 26 French Polynesia 20, 30, 43 Hawaii is Islands Press 29 Letters 9 New Caledonia 18 Pacific Community in Europe 26 Pacific Report 5 Papua New Guinea 13, 39, 51

People 30 Political Currents 17 Postmark Papeete 20 Shipping Services 61 Tonga 23 Tongan community in Australia 25 Tradewinds 51 Travel 45 Tropicalities 23 US in the Pacific 17 Vanuatu 17 Western Samoa 19, 23, 28 Yachts 57