In This Issue

PISANI ON NEW CALEDONIA On the eve of his -| Q return to Paris after a stormy six-month assignment in New Caledonia, President Mitterrand’s Special Envoy and High Commissioner in the territory, Edgard Pisani, talks to Sue Williams in an exclusive PIM interview. It begins on page INDONESIA RAISES ANTE ON OPM “TERROR- -| g ISTS” Alfred Sasako reports from Port Moresby on the increasingly troubled situation on Papua New Guinea’s border with the Indonesian province of Irian Jaya A LABOR PARTY FOR FIJI? Our Suva Correspon- -| 9 dent reports on moves initiated by Fiji’s trade unions to form a Fiji Labor Party, breaking the effective monopoly on political representation so far held by the ruling Alliance Party and the Opposition National Federation Party

PACIFIC MEDIA TODAY Floyd K. Takeuchi reports 21 on the recent meeting of the Pacific Islands News Association (PINA), which brought to light a number of serious and pressing problems facing the various media in the islands THE TAHITI FREEDOM RACE OF 85 Marie- 24 Therese and Bengt Danielsson report from Papeete on a series of remarkable political conversions in the territory in the direction of its political independence

Chrysanthemums And Coconuts Japan G-|

IN THE ISLANDS A special 24-page supplement on the increasing presence and interest of Japan in the islands. The supplement was compiled by PIM Publisher Garry Barker, who recently visited Japan. It begins on page ECONOMIC RECIPE FOR PNG’S FUTURE A 57 major new economic report on the Papua New Guinea economy finds some bright spots, and many things to be done