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• MALE PROSTITUTION IN POLYNESIA Deborah MacFarlane writes on the role of Western seamen and cruise ship passengers in fostering the emergence of a new social stratum of transvestite male prostitutes in a number of Polynesian countries 11 • MICRONESIA Floyd K. Takeuchi launches a monthly column on Micronesian affairs with a reflection on how heavily memories of World War II weighs on U.S. policies towards this part of the Pacific 29 • A TURNING POINT FOR PNG? Papua New Guinea, bedevilled by falling export income, will appeal to Australia for more aid, while reconsidering its domestic economic policies 17 • NEW CALEDONIA Helen Fraser reports on the tumult in the French territory following the fatal shooting of two French paramilitary policemen by Melanesians at La Foa . 15 • KIRIBATI Billy Schutz in Tarawa provides insights into the background to the December 1982 defeat of the government headed by President Teremia Tabai 13 • FRENCH POLYNESIA Marie-Threse and Bengt Danielsson try to sort fact from fiction (and figuring) in local discussions concerning the territorial budget 32 • WEAKER AUSTRALIAN DOLLAR HELPS ISLANDS Finance writer Peter Freeman reports on how the trade imbalance with Australia suffered by a number of Pacific Island countries has been to some extent alleviated by the slide of the Australian dollar on world money markets, and some other factors 51

Australia in the Pacific 51 Books 39

Christianity 39

Cook Islands 36, 54 Deaths 65 Fiji 36, 54, 55 French Polynesia 32 Hawaii 43 Islands Press 21 Kiribati 13 Letters 7 Micronesia 29 New Caledonia 15 Pacific Report 5

Papua New Guinea 19, 36, 44, 53, 55 People 36 Political Currents 13 Postmark Papeete 32 Solomon Islands 54 Tonga n Tradewinds 51 Tropicalities 19 U.S. in the Pacific 9 Vanuatu 7, 55 Western Samoa 11 Shipping timetables 63 Yachts 56 Yesterday 45