Pacific

Islands

Monthly

Vol 63 No. 9

The News Magazine

September 1993

From The

Editor’S Desk 6

Letters 7

Pacific Diary 10

Headlines 11

Business Bulletin 13

Business

'rouble in Saipan 14 iconomic dilemma 16

Vanuatu

'usker finds its aste buds 23

Iarthquake

Suarn picks up the pieces 24

Aejon Expo ’93 27

He Forum 36

•Olitics

ettling in 39

Culture

eviving an ancient art 42

Focus On Png 47

Sport

Rugby power moves east 58 Spirited adolescent 60 Bodybuilding for ’95 Games 61

Yachting

Toothbrushes for paradise 62

Shipping

Shipping Schedule 65

Columnists

David Barber 9 Jemima Garrett 19 Bill McCabe 40 Futa Helu 41 Alfred Sasako 44

Oops ...

THE gremlins were at it again ... our report on New Caledonia’s squatter problem in PIM, July 1993, inadver tently referred to RPCR as pro independence RPCR headed by Jacques Lafleur. The sentence should have read, “A controversial agree ment endorsed in 1988 by the pro independence FLNKS, notably its assassinated leader Jean-Marie

Tjibaou, and the anti-independence

RPCR headed by Jacques Lafleur, the Accords have provided the blueprint for boosted economic development in the lead up to the scheduled refer endum on independence in 1988.” • In the August edition of PIM , a headline on an advertising feature on PNG’s Cellular Mobile Telephone service was wrongly attributed to Solomons Telecom exchange.

Any inconvenience caused by the errors is regretted. □

Publisher: Brian O’Flaherty Acting Editor Martin Tiffany Associate Editor: Arvind Kumar Correspondents: Christine Hatcher, David North, Ed Rampell. lan Williams, Johnson Honimae, Karen Mangnall, Liz Thompson, Nicholas Rothwell, Pesi Fonua, Wally Hiambohn.

Columnists: David Barber (Wellington), Futa Helu (Tonga, covering the Pacific Islands), Jemima Garrett (Sydney).

Julian Moti (Pacific Law), Alfred Sasako (The Forum).

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Sepik carvings: a focus on PNG begins on page 47