Pacific

Islands

Monthly

/oI 63 No. 11

The News Magazine

November 1993

From The

Editor’S Desk 4

Letters 5

Headlines 6

Pacific Diary 10

Business Bulletin Ii

Business

>quash success 12 Jamosi; blessing or blight? 13 .ending crisis hits Vestern Samoa 14

;Over Stories

lolomons saga 15 Vingti’s coup 18 /Oconut politics 20 esting times for Rabuka 21

Fradition

radition vs law 17

Vestern Samoa

yes on America 23

Lawaii

reeway protest 24

Inited Nations

lot air 25

Computers

New column 27

History

Terrible Tarawa 29

Aviation/Shipping

In The Pacific 33

Taejon Expo 41

Sport

Inga the Winger vows to stay 49

Thunder strikes like lightning 50 Olympics in the backyard 51 Magnum force strikes right 51

Yachting

Cruising Tonga 52

Columnists

Jemima Garrett 7 David Barber 9 Julian Moti 28 Alfred Sasako 39 Bill McCabe 48

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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Pacific Day: Tonga's Sione Moala performs during the Pacific National Day at Taejon, Korea