Pacific Islands Monthly
The news magazine of the South Pacific · since 1930
Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 December 1999Vol. 69 No. 12

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Editorial 4 Letters 5 Briefs 7 Special Report: Gordon had lasting effect in Fiji 9 Tabai still fighting for Kiribati 10 Queen Salote pushed security at all cost 14 Business: Air Marshalls unloads Saab 2000 16 Madison Nona to receive Seacology prize 18 Merger fever hits PNG insurance industry 19 Highlands high hopes 20 Benefit to flow as Moran signs deal 21 Pilot error suspected in Guam crash 23 Still no to nuclear dump 24

Year 2000

Back to basics as Y2K approaches 25 Telikom on target for millennium bug 26 Cover: Lest we forget 30-31 Marshall's nuclear test damage lingers 32-33 Politics: Pacfific Island countries criticise inaction over climate change 34 US annexation of Wake Island illegal 36 Development: Kiana's song of Exile praised 44 liming of share float "critical" 46 Pacific-supported Kiwi gets Commonwealth job 51 Yachting; Cruising Ku-ring-gai 54 Opinion: David Barber/Jemima Garett 56 Pacific Puzzle 58

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