Pacific

Islands

Monthly

Vol. 66 No. 6

The News Magazine

June 1996

PUBLISHER: Alan Robinson EDITOR: Debbie Singh SENIOR WRITER: Sophie Foster

Correspondents:

David North, Sam Vulum lan Williams, Liz Thompson, Atama Raganivatu, Sally Andrew, Patrick Decloitre, Chris Peteru COLUMNISTS: David Barber (Wellington), Jemima Garrett (Sydney), Alfred Sasako (The Forum).

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Inside

7: Letters 8: Diverse dancing 20: Burger king or multi-national Goliath? 26: Breaking the silence 32: Nobel laureate in islands sex scandal 34: Rabaul, after the fury 50: Cook Islands women await their moment 51: Celebrating a famous son 52: A balancing act

Sports

54: At the end of the trail

Yachting

57: No barrier to adventure

Special Report

1 Tears,

/L pain,

* death

A special report looks at the Israeli shelling of a United Nations base in Qana, Southern Lebanon, in April. The incident wounded four Fijians and killed 135 people.

Views

9: David Barber: Stirring a hornet’s nest 22: Jemima Garrett: Australia’s awful Greenhouse record 24: Alfred Sasako: A new-look Secretariat

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