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• FIJI GETS ITS WHITE REPORT Retired New Zealand judge Sir John White in his long-awaited report on Fiji’s stormy 1982 election has found that charges of “dirty tricks” made by both sides in the election were in general unproven. The report has been widely welcomed, but there is one dissenting voice 11 • NEW CALEDONIA THE ISSUE OF ELECTORAL REFORM Helen Fraser reports from Noumea that, in the wake of the November visit of Overseas Territories Minister Georges Lemoine, reform of the electoral law in particular, some restriction on the right of some categories of the population to vote on the territory’s future is at the heart of the current political debate 26 • MICRONESIA FLOYD’S FEARLESS FORECAST Floyd K. Takeuchi dusts off his crystal ball for a look into Micronesia’s 1984, the year in which the long U.S. trusteeship will be finally terminated (at least in most of the territory) . 14 • HOTEL STRIKE IN TAHITI Marie-Therese and Bengt Danielsson turn in a probing analysis of the first-ever strike by Tahitian employees of the island’s four big foreign-owned tourist hotels 17 • THE SOLOMONS AND CHINA A special correspondent reviews some curious aspects of the present state of relations between a small southwest Pacific country, the giant People s Republic of China, and the “third party”, Taiwan, raising the possibility that new conditions could be creating grounds for new departures on the issue of the “two Chinas” 41 • SPEC TAKES ON THE BIG ONES The South Pacific Bureau for Economic Co-operation, using funds from the United Nations Development Program and other sources, has launched a year-long survey of shipping and air services in the Pacific two issues of vital concern to the well-being of the region 49 Cover picture: A slit gong rises in imposing fashion from the verdure on Vanuatu's Anatom Island (previously known as Aneityum), in the far south of the archipelago. Air Melanesiae picture.

Books 33 Cooking, Pacific style 38 Cook Islands 45 Deaths 58 Fiji 11, 42, 48 French Polynesia 7, 17, 39 Hawaii 45 Islands Press 10 Kiribati 49 Letters 7 Micronesia 14, 35 Month, The 14 New Caledonia 26 Notes from the North 14 Noumea Notebook 26 Pacific Report 5

Papua New Guinea 33 People 29 Political Currents 39 Postmark Papeete 17 Publishing in the Pacific 15 Report from Vanuatu 21 Samoa Report 23 Shipping 49 Shipping schedules 56 Solomon Islands 41, 43, 47 Tradewinds 48 Tropicalities 43 Vanuatu 21 View from Honolulu 15 Western Samoa 7, 23, 47, 49 Yachts 51