In This Issue

THE RAINBOW WARRIOR SCANDAL Karen -| 2 Mangnall in Auckland, Marie-Therese and Bengt Danielsson in Papeete, and Sue Williams in Noumea, report on the ever-widening consequences of the bombing in Auckland Harbor on July 10 of the Greenpeace vessel, Rainbow Warrior. Two agents of the French external intelligence bureau, DGSE, Domi nique Prieur and Alain Mafart, face trial in Auckland early next month in connection with the affair, in which Greenpeace photographer Fernando Pereira lost his life.

PNG ATHLETES SHINE AT MINI GAMES Lawr- 24 ance Bailey writes from Rarotonga on the South Pacific Mini Games held in the Cook Islands at which for the first time Papua New Guinea emerged as the pre-eminent regional athletic power.

NEW CALEDONIA READIES FOR POLL Sue 27 Williams in Noumea reviews the scene as the French territory prepares for its second election in less than 12 months, due on September 29.

CARING FOR THE HANDICAPPED Lee Anderson 29 in Apia profiles a determined young Australian, Jeff Heath, who, though a paraplegic, is barnstorming the South Pacific trying to improve the lot of the handicapped in Island countries.

AUSSAT ENTERS THE SCENE Communications 31 writer Greg Knudsen reviews the likely regional impact of Australia’s new domestic satellite.

Captain Cook: Navigation, Art, And 42

ESPIONAGE First eye-opening instalment in a three-part reproduction of a recent lecture by Professor Bernard Smith on the functions of art on Captain Cook’s voyages.

THE SOVIET PRESENCE Dirk Anthony Ballendorf, 5-) of Guam’s Micronesian Area Research Center, takes a considered look at the shadow and the substance of talk about the Soviet threat to Pacific Island countries.