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Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 October 1995Vol. 65 No. 10

Pacific

pp. 1-7 · Read in the full issue

Islands

Monthly

October 1995

Mllit/Afiy [

New defence links sought

Adi Kuini on what went wrong Leaders hit out at nuclear tests

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Riots in

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A gendarme is kicked at Tahiti’s Faa’a Airport as the protest against nuclear testing explodes into violence and flames in early September. Photo: Romeo Gacad / AFP

American Samoa SUS2.SO; Australia 5A3.50: Cook Islands SNZ3; Fiji 5F2.50 Vat incl; FS Micronesia SUSS; Kiribati 5A2.50; Nauru 5A2.50: Niue SNZ3; Norfolk SA3: New Caledonia cpf2so; New Zealand 5NZ3.45 incl GST: Northern Marianas SUS 3; Papua New Guinea K 3; Palau SUS 3; Marshall Islands SUS 3; Solomon Islands SA3; French Polynesia cpf 300; Tonga P 3; USA SUS 3; Vanuatu VT22O; Western Samoa T 3.25. These are recommended retail prices only.

1 Cover: Nothing has touched of so much anger and frustration in recent weeks than France’s detonation of a nuclear warhead in French V Polynesia. The protest turned violent inTahiti.