Inside

Editorial 5 Letters to the Editor 6 From the Archives 8 Briefs 9 Cover stories: Islands devastated 11 Special Report: SRC becomes Pacific Community 17 Chinese influx fuels Marshalls' debate 19 Women and fisheries 21 Home discomforts 23 Declaration of truce 24 The NBC crisis 27 Solomons calls on Japan to remove war relics 27 Protest march 30 Region faces security problems 32 What's in a name ? 33 Avertising Features 36 Sports 46 The festival of dreaming 49 An oral history 51 Venture to Vanuatu 52 Land of the long white or long grey cloud 54 Asia's woes and us 55 Commission gets new names 56 Shipping 57

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Cover Story: Massacre! Cyclone Martin's reign of death