Pacific

Islands

Montly

Vol 62 No. 10

The News Magazine

October 1992

From The

Editor’S Desk 4

Letters 5

20Ver Story:

S NG troops in cross-border raid 6

Olitics:

abuka wins over Australia 10

Uman Rights:

le East Timor dilemma 13 )ugainville on the aggenda 15

Isaster:

phoon Omar smashes Guam 16

Women:

It’s a woman’s life 19 A new kind of violence 21

Health:

Are we eating ourselves to death? 24 Famine of knowledge 26 When the doctors leave 27 The growing threat of AIDS 28 A matter of setting the right priorities 32 Looking abroad for treatment 34 The cost of health 35 Setting an example 36

Environment:

Caring for the country a new dimension 38

Festival:

A spectacular cultural event in the making 40 Sea-faring Pacific Islanders 42

Culture:

Hip-notizing hula 46

Sports:

Having a (net) ball 49 More than ‘sports tourists’ 50

Yacthing:

Fiji Regatta Week 52

Shipping:

Shipping Schedules 56

Columnists:

Margot O’Neill 9 Jemima Garrett 11 David Barber iq Bill McCabe 37 Alfred Sasako 45 Julian Moti 43

Publisher: Gene Swinstead

Editor: Mala Jagmohan

ienlor Writer: Martin Tiffany Correspondents: Christine Hatcher, David North, Ed Rampell, lan Villiams, Johnson Honimae, Karen Mangnall, Liz hompson, Nicholas Rothwell, Pesi Fonua Wally liambohn.

Columnists: David Barber (Wellington), Futa Helu Tonga, covering the Pacific Islands), Jemima .arrett (Sydney), Margot O’Neill (Washington) ulian Moti (Pacific Law), Alfred Sasako (The orum).

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[?]rster: on Bougainville

Kanawi: on violence against women

Cook Islands: prepares for festival