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SIDDIQ KOYA AT BAY Our Suva correspondent -| *| reports on the upheaval in Fiji’s Indian-dominated National Federation Party which has culminated in an open revolt against party leader Siddiq Koya PAPUA NEW GUINEA’S OIL PROSPECTS Garry -| 4 Barker reports on a new optimism among oil prospec tors in PNG PAN AM QUITS THE PACIFIC Aviation writer Peter *| g Johnson backgrounds the decision by Pan American Airways to end its half-century of involvement in Pacific aviation

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Sue Williams reports from Noumea on latest deve lopments in the French territory

BLIGH’S CAVE IDENTIFIED Bligh’s Cave on the 25 island of Tofua, Tonga, has been positively identified, probably for the first time since he stayed there 196 years ago. Marie-Therese and Bengt Danielsson report HU YAOBANG IN THE PACIFIC The visit of the 32 general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party to Western Samoa, Fiji and Papua New Guinea was a success, and nowhere more so than in Western Samoa, as our Apia correspondent Lee Anderson reports NEW SEARCH FOR AMELIA EARHART’S SECRET 4Q Julian Putley reports on a recent effort, which came tantalisingly close to success, to unravel the mystery of Amelia Earhart’s disappearance in the Pacific 48 years ago