Pacific

Islands

Monthly

Vol 62 No. 11

The News Magazine

November 1992

-Rom The

Editor’S Desk 4

.Etters 5

Bougainville

lo end to PNG-Solomon order problems 6

A sequence of events 16 awards resolution 17

Olitics

le charter that spells sillusionment 12

Over Stories

awaiian nationalism e wild card 18 le coup agaiinst sovereignty 22

Lisin Ess

igulating casinos a ivernment challenge 24

Sugar’s not-so-sweet deal 27 Fiji’s struggle to bridge the economic gap 28

Disaster

Huricane Iniki Hawaii’s major calamity 32

Advertising Feature

Malaysia-Fiji trade links sealed 34 Banking on the future 35 Courtesy is paying off 38

Education

The power of knowledge 40 Adding the local flavour 43 Discriminating evidence 44

Fashion

Lasting impressions 47

Cuisine

The melting pot of culinary delight 48

Profile

Taking them under her wing 50

Yachting

All in the family 54

Shipping

Shipping schedules 57

Columnists

Jemima Garrett 9 David Barber 11 Bill McCabe 45 Margot O’Neill 51 Alfred Sasako 53 COVER Hawaiian artist Herb Kane’s painting at Volcanoes Na tional Park, Hawaii.

Publisher: Gene Swinstead

Editor: Mala Jagmohan

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