In This Issue

THE KISTE-HERR REPORT David S. North reports -| Q from Washington on the State Department-commis sioned report by American Pacific specialists Professor Robert C. Kiste and Dr Richard A. Herr on the threat posed by the Soviet Union, and other possible threats, to the island nations of the Pacific.

NEW CALEDONIA-LIBYA Sue Williams in Noumea “| 3 writes on signs of divisions within the pro-independ ence FLNKS on the question of the front’s participation in an upcoming conference to be held in Colonel Gaddafi’s Libya.

AIRSHIPS AS FISHERIES POLICE PIM Publisher 4 Garry Barker writes on the pros and cons of using newly developed lighter-than-air craft in the vital task of policing Pacific Island nations’ exclusive economic zones.

STIRRINGS ON AVIATION SCENE Ansett Airlines 22 of Australia and Air New Zealand are emerging as principal actors in a new round of bargaining for rights to a number of Pacific airlanes.

SAGA OF PITCAIRN’S JETTY Recent visitors to 25 Pitcairn Island, Marie-Therese and Bengt Danielsson, tell the story of how the fewer than 50 inhabitants of the island were recently endowed with a reconstructed gateway to the world a new jetty.

B.P.C.’S “Magnificent Obituary” Veteran 35

Pacific historian Harry Maude reviews the new history of the British Phosphate Commission by Maslyn Williams and Barrie Macdonald.

A NEW ENGLANDER IN SAMOA Joseph Theroux 39 begins a three-part series on the life and times of Elisha Lyman Hamilton, a long-time resident of 19th-century Samoa.