In This Issue

WHERE NOW FOR NEW CALEDONIA? With the forum OQ request to relist the territory with the UN decolonisation w committee now firmly in place, the kanaks have international ised their cause. But France is under no obligation to respond.

We find how the committee works and have a survey of the likely scenarios for the future. Also, our correspondent re-visits Thio, a town that was taken over by the kanaks and talks to a former French high commissioner who thinks the forum decision will have no impact on France.

IMPORTED LEGAL HELP: The islands region is a net importer -i A of highly qualified legal expertise. But within that framework there is a growing exchange of top lawyers within the islands.

REVOLUTION IN THE AIR: Or on the ground. Kwajalein -i 9 islanders’ leaders are talking of revolt if their demands are not met. Fined by their government and then the U.S. for last year’s demonstrations, the missile range landowners are now threatening a return to direct action.

WHAT KIND OF TELEVISION: Regional television is still a nA possibility. Although many questions on funding remain to be answered, SPEC has taken up the issue. Meanwhile, the commercial broadcasters are as determined as ever, despite a

tew apparent setbacks in terms of their relations with governments. In Fiji and in PNG, the law has been invoked, though for different reasons.

THE MONEY MEN LOOK NORTH: Australian stockbroking Oft mogul, cigar-smoking Rene Rivkin and the media magnate ° Kerry Packer have turned their sights on PNG with shares in a proposed merchant bank. We ask what’s in it for them and how they’re going about it.

WHO WAS DOCTOR LONG GHOST : The guestion was asked in PIM in May, 1945. Now, more than 40 years later, a PIM correspondent has at least part of the answer in an intriguing piece of detective work that took him through the pages of Herman Melville novels and to Penrhyn Island.

A MILITARY MAN BACKS SPNF2: And an American 1i ex-general at that. Guam congressman Ben Blaz talks of his 1 love for his home island and of his fears that nuclear forces could endanger its way of life.

HISTORY RESTORED: Fiji’s former capital, the historic and og beautiful town of Levuka is likely to develop its tourist potential while losing nothing of its unigue character.