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VANUATU HELD AT GUNPOINT • TONGAN 3 RELEASED

November i]©©©

Bougainville projiflr shot dead

American Samoa US$2.5O; Australia A 53.50; Cook Islands NZS3; Fiji F 52.50 Vat incl; FS Micronesia USS 3; Kiriba a‘ v ; '> 3 Niue NZ$3; Norfolk ASS; New Caledonia cpf2so; New Zealand NZ53.45 incl GST; Northern Marianas USS 3; Papua New Guinea K 3; Palau US$3; Marshall islands p|s3; Solomon Islands As 3; French Polynesia cpf3oo; Tonga P 3: USA USS 3; Vanuatu VT22O; Western Samoa T 5.50. These are recommended prices only.

Cover: James Ranuku

M COVER: Shock and disbelief follow the assassination of Bougainville Premier Theodore Miriung, who opposed the BRA’s campaign of violence and was a “thorn in the side of the central government”