In This Issue

EXCITING NEW GOLD FINDS IN PNG Australian geologist W. A. McGee reports on new gold deposits discovered in the chain of islands off the coast of New Ireland, Papua New Guinea. 12

Hayden Visit Fisheries Talks In Png

A staff writer reviews the recent visit to Papua New Guinea by Australian Foreign Minister Bill Hayden, and the vital talks in Port Moresby between U.S. repre sentatives and South Pacific Forum nations on access for U.S. tuna boats to the region’s 200-mile exclusive economic zones. 16

Exclusive Interview With Palau’S Presi

DENT Ed Rampell in Koror has secured an exclusive interview for PIM with Palau’s President Haruo I. Remeliik. It begins on page 1 9

U.S. Relations With “Compact” States

Floyd K. Takeuchi reports on the bureaucratic in

fighting over which government department State or Interior is to represent the U.S. in its relations with the future freely associated states of Micronesia. 27

Noumea-Papeete: The Toothless Alliance

Marie-Therese and Bengt Danielsson report on the odd “alliance” formed between the main anti-independ ence political parties in the French territories of New Caledonia and French Polynesia. 28 FROM NORFOLK TO PITCAIRN Kari Boye Young of Pitcairn records the islanders’ reaction to the visit late last year of 20-odd people from Norfolk Island, “second home” of many of the original Pitcairn families. 47 FIJI’S TWO DEPUTY PMs Fiji political circles are intrigued by the reasons behind Prime Minister Ratu Mara's recent appointment of Mosese Qionibaravi as a second deputy PM in association with Ratu David

Toganivalu. 53