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The News Magazine

July 1991

Countdown to the polls: Apisai Tora challenges the chiefs in Fiji 6

Leap of Faith: the ritual of the Vanuatu land-divers’ as they kiss the earth 28

Showdown in Vanuatu: Lini issues a challenge, and the opposition responds 18

BUSINESS: Lack of management and a masterplan place Fiji last in the tourism growth stakes 46 VANUATU: politics, tourism and education 18 INDUSTRY; American Samoa tuna cannery workers frozen out of US pay rise 54 FUTA HELU: Multiple headaches from drug imports 11 DAVID BARBER: Is Bolger's government eyeing the nuclear umbrella club? 27 MARGOT O’NEILL: Battle over US bases in Guam 13 JEMIMA GARRETT: Spotlight on PNG aid 38

EDUCATION: Lessons on life learned under the breadfruit tree 35 SPORT: PNG shapes up for Operation Gold at the South Pacific Games 41

Letters: 4

HEALTH: Eighty per cent of blindness in the region could soon be cured 44 : Slow suicide in Samoa with a weedkiller 37 BOOKS: A journey through island politics 43

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