In This Issue

OK TEDI IN TROUBLE PIM Publisher Garry Barker reviews the woes of Papua New Guinea’s vast Ok Tedi gold-copper mining project, ordered closed by the PNG Government late in January. His report begins on page 1 ■ FIJI HIT BY HURRICANES AGAIN Julie Rich ardson reports from Suva on the disastrous hurricanes, Eric and Nigel, which killed almost 30 people and caused damage totalling $BO million. On page 14 JAPAN’S PM IN THE SOUTH PACIFIC PIM writers review the January visit to Australia, New Zealand, Fiji and Papua New Guinea by Japan’s Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone. They assess the trip as having “great importance” to the region. Their reports begin on

page 20

NOUMEA’S FORMER BISHOP ON THE NEW CALE DONIA CRISIS Monsignor Pierre Martin, Roman Catholic Bishop of Noumea from 1956 to 1970, has spoken to a French newspaper about the present crisis in New Caledonia. PlM’s exclusive report begins on

page 24

Islands Into Computer Age Computer

salesmen are finding eager buyers in the Pacific, particularly in larger countries such as Fiji and Papua New Guinea. A report appears on page 33

Search For Lapita Homeland Leading

Pacific archaeologists have joined forces with Austra lia’s Oceanic Research Foundation to test the hypoth esis that the “Lapita people,” pioneer colonisers of many Pacific islands, might have had their, immediate homeland in Papua New Guinea’s Bismarck Archipela go. Our report is on page 47