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Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 February 1986Vol. 57, No. 2

Contents

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Airships 14 Aviation 22 Books 35 Deaths 57 Fiji 9,48 Hawaii 38 Islands Press 45 Letters 9 Micronesia 42, 43, 57 Nauru 35 New Caledonia 13,19 Pacific Report 7 Papua New Guinea 20 People 48

PIM Opinion 5 Pitcairn Island 25 Service Page 58 Shipping Schedules 53 Soviet Union 11

Stamps 47

Television 27 The Month 25 Tradewinds 27

Tropicalities 42

United States 11 Vanuatu 43 Western Samoa 9,39 Yachts 50

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