Pacific

Islands

Monthly

Vol 64 No. 3

The News Magazine

March 1994

Forum 6

Letters 7

Headlines 8

Pacific Diary 10

Cover Story

Solomon Islands logging dilemma 11

Tourism

Laggards respond to tourism survey 14

Industrial Relations

Not Korman's year 16

The United Nations

Gearing up for Barbados 17

Hawaii

101st anniversary of overthrow observed 18

Politics

Fiji election 20

New Caledonia

Stormy sea for new ferry 22

People

Fakafanua’s balancing act 25

Business

Now where did that minerals boom go? 27 Radisson sale could affect hotel prices 29

Telecom Feature 37

Marshall Islands

Special feature on the Marshall Islands 43

Yachting

So what’s a junk rig? 58

Sport

Unions to unite 59 Tongans to do it tough 59 Burning Bunce 60 Winter Olympians 61 Jone wins again 61

Shipping

Shipping schedules 63

Columnists

Jemima Garrett 19

David Barber 42 Bill McCabe 57

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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Marshallese children: special feature on the Marshall Islands begins on page 43