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Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 September 1993Vol. 63, No. 9

Pacific

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Islands

Monthly

September 1993

The Forum

Protests and pleas in Nauru

Inside

• Pacific rugby power moves east Focus on

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• Saipan’s economic dilemma Tattoos Reviving an ancient art in Samoa

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