In This Issue

• BORDER CRISIS IN PAPUA NEW GUINEA lan -| 1 Glanville, formerly one of PNG’s top soldiers, reports on the new crisis which has flared up on PNG’s border with the Indonesian province of Irian Jaya. Anti- Indonesian elements in the Free West Papua (OPM) movement have become more active, refugees have fled across the border into PNG in increasing numbers and the PNG Government is faced with a cruel dilemma. • POPE JOHN PAUL II VISITS PNG, SOLOMONS 1 5 The Rev. John Garrett, noted historian of the Christian church in the South Pacific, provides fascinating insights into the background to this month’s first-ever visit by the head of the Catholic church to two of the most important countries in Melanesia. • INTERVIEW WITH TOFILAU ETI Western -IQ Samoa’s Prime Minister Tofilau Eti talks to PIM Editor 1 *

Garry Barker in Apia, saying that his government’s policies are working, and that Western Samoa has “turned the corner” on the path to economic recovery. • THE WORLD ACCORDING TO MULDOON 22 New Zealand’s Prime Minister Sir Robert Muldoon is interviewed for PIM by Floyd K. Takeuchi in Honolulu. • THE MICRONESIAN IMBROGLIO —Dr Stewart 25 Firth, of Australia’s Macquarie University, is just back from a visit to Micronesia. He offers a clear-cut and challenging viewpoint on the situation in the area, arguing in particular that things would be easier for all concerned if both sides started “calling a spade a spade.” • THE DEATH OF CAPTAIN COOK —The second c-j and concluding part of a lecture given in Sydney on 3 1 February 14, 1984, by Professor Greg Dening.