Pacific

Islands

Monthly

Vol. 67 No. 04

The News Magazine

April 1997

PUBLISHER: Alan Robinson EDITOR: Manivannan Naidu SENIOR WRITER: Bernadette Hussein

Correspondents:

Sally Andrew, Patrick Decloitre, David North, Chris Peteru, Atama Raganivatu, Kalinga Seneviratne, Liz Thompson, Lili Tuwai, Sam Vulum lan Williams COLUMNISTS: David Barber (Wellington), Jemima Garrett (Sydney), Debbie Singh (South Pacific Commission).

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Cover

Women and children UNICEF sheds light on how far the Pacific in the Pacific has come and how far it has still to go in improving the status of women and children

Special Report

Bikini 5l years Bikini elders return home to mark Bikini Day later and hopes for resettlement seem more real

This Month

A healthy Start NZ’s PMA out to cure Islanders’ ailing 24 Signals to the Proposal to close down Radio Australia Pacific seen as re^ection °f the Howard 44 government’s attitude to its neighbours Exposed First Maori TV channel becomes cause of cultural embarrassment Nobel laureate Gajdusek pleads guilty to sexual abuse of ** faces jail island youth 4/ On death row Three await death by hanging 5Q Australia’s dark, Questions surround missing fiiles on Secret past Australian executions in PNG 50

In Every Issue

Letters to the Editor 7 In Brief 9_ Business Kava to calm Western nerves 48 Sports Ingots for Inga 51 Literature Capturing the flavour of Vanuatu 52 Yachting Looking for adventure 54 Jemima Garrett Mercenaries, PNG and Aussie aid 55 David Barber The race issue 57 Debbie Singh The retreat 58

Features

Tourism in the Pacific 25 Fisheries in the Pacific 36