Pacific Islands Monthly
The news magazine of the South Pacific · since 1930
Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 January 2000Vol. 70 No. 1

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I Editorial 4 Letters/Opinion 5 Briefs 8 Special Report; Big changes after Marshalls national election 10 Vanuatu’s new govt makes investors nervous 14 The new-look Cook Islands’ cabinet 15 Business: Freedom Air launches NZ-Fiji service 16 Air Fiji eyes more regional flights 16 New look for Air Pacific 17 Port Moresby’s wharf relocation endorsed 18 First deep-ocean probe for Earhart’s plane 20 Olympic housing goes green 22 Bio-diversity touted as PNG’s next goldmine 24 Pacific Regional Satellite TV brewing 26 Sea Launch delivers DIRECTV 1-R into orbit 29 Cover; ■ Dirty Money: Island countries accused of aiding money launderers 30 f Vanuatu goes after millions in laundered money 32 y Niue denies link to dug cartels 33

Fears US military legacyon Pacific island producing cancer 37 Earthquake! Tsunami! Vanuatu still recovering 38 Guam’s Pangelinan heads Pacific Community 41 i: Palau’s jellyfish world diminishing 42 Samoa’s Queen Salamasina sold to Fijian company 45 Yachting: Far from Noumea 54 Opinion; David Barber/Jemima Garett 56 Pacific Puzzle 58

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