The Month

• TONGA AND CYCLONE ISAAC Penny Hodgkinson writes from Nukualofa on the material and socio-cultural problems Cyclone Isaac has left in its wake 13 • ASEAN AND THE PACIFIC Pamela Takiora Ingram Pryor has been studying the problem of what the South Pacific region has to learn from ASEAN in the way of regional organisation 17 • POSTMARK PAPEETE Marie-Therdse and Bengt Danielsson, on their annual cruise with the Lindblad Explorer, visited Raoul Island in the Kermadec group and they share with us its almost forgotten history 20 • MICRONESIA MEMORANDA PIM Editorial Adviser John Carter reviews an important series of memoranda on the US-Micronesia talks on the compact of free association. The memoranda have been prepared on the initiative of the Jesuit based Micronesian Seminar, Truk 29 • PRIVATE THOUGHTS OF JACQUES MOURADIAN A confidential French document has come PlM’s way which throws light on how a French Resident Commissioner in Port Vila in 1969 really saw his task within the Anglo-French condominium - 33 • FRANCE, AUSTRALIA IN THE PACIFIC Daniel Tardieu takes a critical look at Australian policies towards the South Pacific, and argues that the French presence is vital to the security of the region 48 • THE DANICA DRAMA A PIM Special Correspondent in Rabaul tells the inside story of the seizure by the Papua New Guinea authorities of the US superseiner Danica, found fishing within PNG’s 200-mile economic zone 51 • RADIO IN THE PACIFIC Jack. D. Haden launches a new series of Pacific Radio Notes 56

ASEAN and the Pacific 17 Books

Deaths "Z..6S

Easter Island

E'ji 5,39

France in the Pacific 33,43 Islands Press ...28 Kermadec Islands 20 Letters Micronesia New Caledonia !."!!!."40 48 Pacific Report .5 Papua New Guinea 5,23, 51

People... 45 Pitcairn Island 53 Political Currents 29 Postmark Papeete 20 Radio 56 Shipping Services 61 Tonga 13,15 Tradewinds 51 Tropicalities 23 US in the Pacific 5, 29 Vanuatu 5,40, 53 Yachts 57 Yesterday 41