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Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 December 1995Vol. 65 No. 12

Inside

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k i Fiji’s murder statistics have doubled in the last ten years. PIM looks at some of the unsolved murders, the criminal jus tice system and how this has affected criminals and victims.

6: Letters

8: Headlines

11: Kina stabilises and points to recovery. 13: Chirac rewards Carlot 14: Greenpeace blasts US over nuclear testing. 16: Laughing in the face of death 18: APEC and trade policy. 20: Welcome Asia. 21: Vanuatu’s malaria epidemic. 28: Fiji cashes in on chips.

29: Aviation Supple

Ment

48: Pacific grip on grid iron football. 50: Dance with a dugong 58: “ The Voyage of HMS Herald 1852-1861”

Views

12: David Barber on the South Pacific Commission. 22: Alfred Sasako reviews the year 1995 and what it brought for the Pacific.

Sports Special

Kiwi rugby fame is a H ~kJ doubie - ed 9 ed sword. Find out why.