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In This Issue

THE PORT MORESBY CURFEW Noel Pascoe in 1Q Port Moresby reports on the local consequences of the curfew recently imposed In the Papua New Guinea capital in an effort to curb the city’s crime wave and on the largely unforeseen reaction of the world media to the event.

NEW CALEDONIA’S TOURIST INDUSTRY FIGHTS -I Q 0 ... .. ... , IO BACK - Sue Williams in Noumea interviews Char es Lavoix, he man who carries the mam responsibility for

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plan to put the industry back on its feet following the mrpnt political ti irmoii recent political turmoil.

PALAU’S PRESIDENT MURDERED In the early 25 hours of July 1 Palau President Haruo I. Remeliik was gunned down just outside his home by persons as yet unknown. A PIM Staff Writer summarises reports on the event from Koror and New York.

,N TAH,TI FOR THE ARTS FESTIVAL Marie- 29 Therese and Bengt Danielsson spin a tale to refresh the spirits of visitors to Tahiti who are hugely disappointed that they have not found the paradise on earth they had been led to believe they would,

The First Woman Circumnavigator Shir- 42

ley Fenton Huie tells the remarkable story of Mile.

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of a ship commanded by Count Louis Antoine de Bougainville in his circumnavigation of 1766-69. * VANUATU SETS UP SHOP IN LUGANVILLE 45 - Radio Vanuatu for the first time has opened a studio 4& ... , , 0 . „ , ° n ,he big island of Santo, scene of the 1980 separatist reV olt. Tjm Mason (e|ls , he story of this new step jn the long process of nation-building.

Micronesia A Question Of Legitimacy 5Q

Henry M. Schwalbenberg, S. J., writes on the problems facing the new Micronesian entities in establishing their international legitimacy in the special conditions in which they have come into being, and will have to live.