The Month

• ELECTION FEVER Robert Keith-Reid reports on the turbulent post-election scene in Fiji, and Angus Smales writes on Papua New Guinea politics following the sweeping comeback victory in the recent elections of the country’s founding Prime Minister Michael Somare 10,15 • MARSHALL ISLANDS American journalist Gift Johnson reports from Kwajalein as Marshallese landowners occupy the giant U.S. missile-testing base, and U.S. officialdom shows itself increasingly opposed to the independence option which the Marshallese claim is their right 30 • NEW CALEDONIA Helen Fraser reports from Noumea on the growing pressures of nationalism 19 • MARLON BRANDO For the first time in more than 20 years, the U.S. film star Marlon Brando has granted a press interview to the Papeete daily, Les Nouvelles. He talks about films, life, the bomb and why he loves Tahiti 33 • TRADEWINDS A large-scale display of Pacific Islands products planned for Sydney in September has inspired a new aggression in the marketing approach of many Island countries 58 • HAWAII Dr Stephen Weinstein begins a two-part report of an off-the-beaten track exploration of several islands of the Hawaii group. This month he visits Lanai, Molokai and Maui 53

Books 47 Brando. Marlon 33 Cook Islands 35 Deaths 73 Fiji 10 France in the Pacific 19, 27 French Polynesia 33, 41 Hawaii 53 Islands Press 18 Kiribati 37, 51 Letters 7 Micronesia 30 New Caledonia 19

New Zealand in the Pacific 35, 40 Pacific Report 5 Papua New Guinea 7, 15, 49 People 41 Political Currents 27 Postmark Papeete 24 Shipping Services 69 Travel 53 Tradewinds 58 Tropicalities 33 U.S. in the Pacific 30 Vanuatu 40, 27 Yachts 65