In This Issue

NEW CALEDONIA ON THE BOIL. The troubled -| 4 French territory will never be the same again following the November 18 elections to the Territorial Assembly, which were the target of an “active boycott” by pro-independence Kanaks. A report from PlM’s Noumea correspondent, Helen Fraser, and other sources, begins on page .

PAPUA NEW GUINEA’S LAW AND ORDER PROB- -| Q LEM. The government of Michael Somare grapples manfully with the problems of urban crime, but Noel Pascoe reports that an early solution is not in prospect.

SOLOMON ISLANDS’ NEW PM FACES SEPARAT- 22 IST PROBLEM. Sir Peter Kenilorea faces a secession problem on his native Malaita Island.

Nicholas Thornton reports.

AIR PACIFIC. In-fighting was continuing at PlM’s 25 press time over which of the two Australian airlines, Qantas and Ansett, would take on the job of bailing out Fiji’s national carrier.

HOW MUTLI-RACIAL HAWAII GREW UP. A new 39 book traces the origins of today’s multi-racial Hawaiian society to the reign of King Sugar in the latter part of the 19th century and the early part of the 20th.

PLANNED FIJIAN “GALLEON”. Fijian historian 44 Manoa Rasigatale has a dream; to build a great twin-hulled drua such as his ancestors used in their warlike expeditions.

“DE-SEGREGATING” FIJI’S SCHOOL. A plan to 53 integrate Fiji’s school system has met opposition from teachers and others on both the Fijian and Indian sides of the country’s big racial and cultural divide.