In This Issue

WESTERN SAMOA TURNS 25: Top Samoan novelist and -J4 academic Professor Albert Wendt gives PIM a personal review of the years since independence.

LIBYA IN THE SOUTH PACIFIC: In a wide-ranging overview of *| g Australian perspectives of the South Pacific, Australian Foreign Minister Bill Hayden says French S.P. policies are to blame for Libyan activities in the region.

TREATY ENDS TUNA WAR: Sean Dorney reports on the 22 signing of the fishing treaty between the US and the South Pacific Forum nations which ends two tough years of bargaining.

NEW FIJI GOVERNMENT FACES TESTS: Our Suva 10 correspondent reports on the protests and problems faced by the Labour/NFP government on the setting up of Fiji’s first TV service.

FRENCH AMBASSADOR SPEAKS: The French Ambassador 35 to Australia, Mr Bernard Follin defends the Chirac government’s plans for New Caledonia.

Kiribati Arrests U.S. Boat 46

KANAK DEVELOPMENT PROBLEMS: A group of FLNKS 37 mayors and town councillors talks to PIM about obstacles to Kanak economic development.

LAND CONTROVERSY: A New Caledonia tribe protests to 36 P.M. Jacques Chirac over confiscation of land that was ceded to them by the previous government.

AMERICAN SAMOA: PIM correspondent David North reports 4*| on Congressional moves to make cash welfare payments available for American Samoa.

MARSHALL ISLANDS: PIM correspondent Giff Johnson 43 reports on the six year effort of Marshall Islanders to get their case for damages for US Nuclear testing to court.

NUCLEAR TESTING A PAIN IN THE TUMMY?: Dr Norman 25 Swan looks at the evidence linking increases in Ciguatera fish poisoning to French nuclear testing.

WOMEN AND EDUCATION IN VANUATU: Karen Mangnall 30 talks to Kathy Rarua, Vanuatu Education Minister advisor on pre-school, primary and girls education.