Pacific

Islands

Monthly

Vol. 65 No.l

The News Magazine

January 1995

□ Letters 4

□ Headlines 7

□ Killing shocks Vanuatu 10 The Cook Islands saga 11

□ Cover Stories

Apia's political crunch 12 And then there is VAGST 15

□ Opinion

Islanders' health poses problems 19 For a cleaner environment 21 And they went marching in 25

□ The Forum

New salary structure causes dismay 16

□ Mining

Dividing up the ocean bottom 18

□ The Region

McKinnon's view of the Pacific 22

□ Vanuatu

Upset in provincial elections 26

□ Labour

Exploitation in the Marianas 28

□ Films

Lights, camera, action 32

□ Profile

Our man in New York 36

□ Economy

A bitter pill for Vanuatu 39

□ Sports

Sikahem's American dream 53

□ Yachting

New year's dreaming 56

Cover design by JAMES RANUKU

CORRECTION: We had inadvertently described DHL’s new Pacific manager, Gary Hislop, as having worked in the USSR in our last issue. Hislop had, in fact, worked in the USA.

Publisher: Brian O’ Flaherty Editor; Mala Jagmohan Senior Writer: Yunus Rashid Correspondents: Christine Hatcher, David North, Ed Rampell, lan Williams, Karen Mangnall, Liz Thompson, Roman Grynberg, Wally Hiambohn.

Columnists: David Barber (Wellington), Futa Helu (Tonga, cover ing the Pacific Islands), Jemima Garrett (Sydney). Alfred Sasako (The Forum).

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