In
this issue
No.
101 July 1981

Letters Update
Uninvited
Guests
For centuries foreigners have abused the hospitality of the people of
the Pacific Islands. Issue editor Bob Hawkins argues there's more of the
same in store. 
The Facts on the Pacific Islands

Mixed
fortunes at Ok Tedi
Papua New Guinea's new copper mine is expected to earn $10 billion
in 20 years. Russell Hunter points to the winners and losers.

We
are Kanaks
Two independentists in French New Caledonia tell their people's tragic
story.

The
Last Resource
A poster for Women in the Pacific

Guano,
Going - Nearly Gone
Utter devastation of their homeland is the price
two islands have paid for 'development'. Bob Hawkins reports.

Phoenix:
Ashes to Ashes
Mike
Parsons investigates the 'pirates' of free enterprise.

Keeping
Levers at Bay
A tiny
Solomon Islands community is resisting the advances of a mighty multi-national.

Troubled
Waters
Reagan's blockade of the Law of the Sea leaves Islands nations high and
dry, reports
Tony Marjoram.

Distant
Lures
How foreign fishing companies are finding loopholes in the 200-mile limit.

They
Still had Tails
Ross Stevens reports on media myth-making.

Worth
Reading on...The Pacific Islands

Ideas
for action A monthly guide to action
groups around the world. Reviews:
New books and a classic Country
profile: Democratic Yemen

Cover photograph: Biliso
Osake
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