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• BOUNTY LURKS IN A SWEDISH FOREST Marie-Therese and Bengt Danielsson have discovered a giant model of Bligh’s Bounty in a forest in southern Sweden • 13 • FRED M. ZEDER TALKS TO RIM On behalf of RIM, Floyd K. Takeuchi in Honolulu talks to Fred M. Zeder, President Reagan’s personal representative to the Micronesian political status negotiations. Mr Zeder tells how he sees future relations between the U.S. and the new political entities emerging from the Trust Territory 19 • FROM ASOPA TO ITI Keith Jackson, who trained at Australia’s former School of Pacific Administration (ASOPA), and now has charge of a course in mass media at ASOPA’s successor body, the International Training Institute (ITI), writes of the dramatic change in institutional direction wrought by the years 25 • ASIAN DEVELOPMENT BANK AND THE ISLANDS The ADB faces some very special problems in offering its help to the smaller Pacific Island countries. An article in the Hong Kong-based weekly Far Eastern Economic Review offers some insights into these problems 29 • MALAITA Dr Stephen Weinstein completes a two-part series on his travels in Solomon Islands with an account of a visit to Malaita, second largest island in the group 47 • NEW ZEALAND’S REGIONAL LINKS New Zealand’s Prime Minister Muldoon recently blasted Australian officials as “Pacific-ignorant”. In a number of articles devoted to New Zealand and its Islands links, PIM looks at just what kind of justification exists for the PM’s lofty scorn 55

Asian Development Bank 29 Australia in the Pacific 25 Books 43 Cook Islands 33 Deaths 73 Fiji 31, 35, 40 Hawaii 33 Islands Press 53 Japan in the Pacific 29 Letters 7 Micronesia 19, 37 Month, The 13 New Caledonia 15, 41 New Zealand in the Pacific 55 Notes from the North 19 Noumea Notebook 15

Pacific Report 5 Papua New Guinea 33, 35, 37, 43, 45, 52 People 37 Political Currents 25 Postmark Papeete 13 Samoa Report 14 Shipping 71 Solomon Islands 7, 47 South Pacific Conference 11 Tradewinds 51 Travel 47 Tropicalities 31 Vanuatu 17, 51 View from Honolulu 22 Western Samoa 7 Yachts 7, 65