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Editorial 4 Letters 5 Briefs 6 Special Report: Guarding details 8 Morals of the Jax haven story 9 Business: Delta offers friendly merger with Ross 11 Fishing Feature: The Cook Islands return to tradition 12 Fed-up Japanese investors want euro to shape up 13 Petroleum's fail from the frontier 14 Tourism in the Pacific 17 Academics lead fight against family businesses 21 Fiji to host tourism exchange in May 22 Cover: Paradise not in the eyes of the beholder 30-31 Report attacks Pacific nations human rights record 32 Attempts to muzzle watchdogs criticised 33 Is Tuvalu paradise? 34 Politics: Islanders want big bucks for key missile test range 36 US lays it on the line to Marshalls 38 Develojnent: Papin New Guinea's privatisation woes 41 Workshop sets fair deal for access to Pacific's resources 42 The Return el poly-pop/tiki culture 43 Pacific death school 47 Orbituary: Stuart Kingan, oracle of Pacific Change 53 Yachting: Coward's crossing 54 Opinion: David Barber/Jemima Garett 56-57 Pacific Puzzle 58

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