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• THE VIEW FROM RAROTONGA W. G. Coppell interviews the new Cook Islands Prime Minister Geoffrey Henry, whose relaxed and open-minded attitudes appear to augur well for the future of his country 9 • FUTURE OF NEW CALEDONIA Alain Rollat of Le Monde gives a metropolitan Frenchman’s view of the situation in the troubled South Pacific territory, and Helen Fraser describes the attitudes of the various new Caledonian political groups as they prepared to fly off for the July “round-table” talks in Paris 15, 43 • MICRONESIA Floyd K. Takeuchi describes the affirmative June vote in the Federal States of Micronesia regarding the Compact of Free Association, and latest moves in negotiations between the U.S. and the republics of Marshall Islands and Palau 23 • SEVENTH SOUTH PACIFIC GAMES Western Samoan journalist Sano Malifa, in his first offering in a regular column on Samoan affairs, describes how his country is preparing for the September Games, and how it hopes to benefit from them 27 • WEATHER OF ’B3 “We’re facing the unknown,” says a U.S. climatologist, as he surveys the extraordinary meteorological phenomena of 1983 so far 29 • MORUROA Marie-Therese and Bengt Danielsson take up arms against French Government arguments in defence of the French nuclear testing program, and in so doing generate both heat and light 33 • RETURN OF THE RENEGADE In Papua New Guinea the controversial lambakey Okuk, who had set his sights on being prime minister but who lost his seat in parliament, has returned after winning a by-election 44

Books 51 Cook Islands 9 Deaths 73 Exploration 51 Fiji 47, 59 France in the Pacific 33 French Polynesia 18 Islands press 45 Kiribati 61 Letters n 7 Malaysian Pacific trade 63 Micronesia 23, 31, 53 New Caledonia 15, 43 Pacific Report 5 Palau 7 Papua New Guinea 41, 44

People 47 Political Currents 43 Shipping Services 71 Solomon Islands 37 South Pacific Games 27 Tradewinds 59 The Month 15 Tokelau 47 Tropicalities 37 U.S. in the Pacific 23 USSR in the Pacific 25 Vanuatu 8,21,41 Weather Patterns 29 Western Samoa 27, 55 Yachts 69

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