In This Issue

MRS NARAYAN INTERVIEWED Our Suva Cor- -| -| respondent turns in a memorable interview with Fiji’s sole woman MP, and one of the country’s ablest politicians, Irene Jai Narayan.

THOUGHTS OF CASPAR WEINBERGER PIM “| Q Publisher Garry Barker reports on a satellite interview given to journalists in a number of Pacific countries by US Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger in which he outlines US perceptions of current defence prob lems in the Pacific, including the troubled ANZUS Treaty.

NO “BRIGHT SIDE” EVIDENT IN NEW CALEDONIA 22 Veteran Australian journalist Denis Warner reports on a recent visit to New Caledonia, and finds it hard to “look on the bright side”. Mr Warner is at present editor of the Pacific Defence Reporter.

AUCKLAND, NOVEMBER 4 A review of the 26 remarkable denouement of the November 4 case in Auckland against two French secret service agents held in connection with the bombing of the Greenpeace flagship Rainbow Warrior

Whither, The South Pacific Conference? 27

Dr Richard Herr reviews the South Pacific Conference in Honiara in October which was criticised as almost a waste of time by the leader of the Fiji delegation, Deputy Prime Minister Ratu David Toganivalu and cautions against “throwing the baby out with the bathwater” in reaction to the “somnolent” affair.

A 45th WWII ANNIVERSARY PIM Associate Editor 30 Malcolm Salmon recalls the remarkable events of September-October 1940, when an Australian warship played a key role in keeping New Caledonia on the Allied side in what 14 months later was to become the Pacific War.