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J1ll\t "II/1 East-West Communication Institute Honolulu, Hawaii

VOL 7. No. 4December 1977

U.S.P. DENIED ATS-6 FUNDSWith encouragement from the U.S.

Department of State, the Universityof the South Pacific submitted aproposal for funds to develop aprogram for utilization of theATS-6satellite in connnection with theU.S.P. Extension Services. Theplan was to use the ATS-6 videocapability to supplement the ex-tension services presently carriedout through the ATS-1 (PEACESAT).

Although permission was grantedby the National Aeronautics andSpace Agency (NASA) for the use ofthe ATS-6, the U.S. Agency forInternational Development, whichwas to provide the funding foradditional equipment and services,rejected the proposal on the groundsthat the project was not in keeping

with the Agency's mandate to pro-vide assistance to the poor major-ity in developing countries."

An unexpected result of AID'sdecision not to provide funding forthe A".S-6 project was that theVice-Chancellor rejected more thantwo million US dollars offered byAID for development of programs atAlafue Agriculture College throughthe University of r{awaii's Collegeof Tropical Agriculture.

Discussions among the U.S. De-partment of State. AID, the Univer-sity of Hawaii and the University ofthe South Pacific are still under-way in an attempt to resolve theimpasse.

Fuibright-PINAScholarship GoesTo Keith-Reid

A Fulbright-PINA fellowship injournalism has been awarded toRobert Keith-Reid (36), chief report-er for the Fiji Times Suva. Asecond felTowship was awarded to EtiSaaga, of the Samoa Times, Apia,Western Samoa, but Mr. Saaga lateradvised the organising director ofthe Pacific Islands News Association,Mr. L.G. Usher, that he would not beable to take advantage of the award.

The Fulbright-P1NA fellowshipsare provided by the United StatesGovernment and are open to newspapereditors or reporters from non-Ameri-can South Pacific island territories.

Applications for the 1977awards were invited by the Pacific

ff1! t'r "-- Islands News Association and nomina-tions were made by a committee of

.. 1 representatives of the Association,1' the U.S. Embassy in Fiji and the Uni-

versity of the South Pacific.

. £ ., '- - Mr. Keith-Recd wi 1 be enrolled" L .'. ". in the school of journalism at theV ' . F University of Hawaii, and ail! also

work with newspapers in Honolulu,U4 Before Joining the F!, Mr.

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New Pacific Island Language Broadcasts

New Maori and Pacific IslandProgramming plans included anews broadcasts from Radio Newspecial 7 p.m. bulletin daily fromZealand began in October, theAuckland, Wellington, and Christ-Chronicle reported.church in Maori, followed by addi-

tional bulletins in the main Pacific

languages.COOK ISLAND CABINET

INSTALLS TV MONITORA color television set and video-

tape player have been installed in

the Cabinet conference room of the

Cook Islands government to monitor

criticism, the Cook Island News re-

ported recently.

'For many years now [the] Cabinethas been very concerned at the amount

of adverse and unfounded criticism

given publicity through media in New

Zealand on Cook Islands matters,'

the paper said. One of the reasonsfor establishing a Cook Islands Gov-

ernment Office in Auckland was to be

able to monitor criticisms and where

necessary reply, through the media,

to correct misleading statements.,

On the advice of the Trade Com-

missioner and with the assistance of

Gary Manghan, Manager of the Aucklandbranch of TISCO New Zealand, Ltd.which installed the equipment, the

Cabinet can now keep informed of

programs shown on the televisioncircuits in New Zealand via recorded

cassette tapes mailed to Rarotonga.

Maori, Samoan, Tongan, Cook Is-land Maori, Niuean, and Tokelauanbulletins are to be broadcast fromAuckland. Wellington will broadcastin all but Tongan. Christchurch willuse Maori and Samoan.

COOK ISLANDER, WEBB,ATTENDS RADIO COURSE

An audio operations course,funded by the Commonwealth Fund forTechnical Cooperation and by theAsian Institute for Broadcasting De-

velopment in association with theFiji Broadcasting Commission, washeld in Suva during October andNovember.

Several experiencej broadcastersfrom around the South Pacific regionreceived advanced training in vari-ous aspects of audio recording, in-cluding skills designed to make high

Pacific listening populations, will quality recordings of traditional

also broadcast a magazine program inmusic under difficult environmental

a different language each night.

conditions.

The programs will originate froma new Maori and Pacific Island unitin Auckland headed by D Fox

The Cook Island News reportedthat Tommy Webb, Rarotonga SchoolBroadcast Officer and part-timeCIBNC announcer, attended the course.

Radio Listenership BoostedThe Australian Information Ser-

vice reports that Radio Australia's

four-year-old Papua New Guinea Ser-vice is increasing listenershipwith its broadcasts in Neo-Melanesian

(Pidgin) and Simple English.

The broadcasts in Simple Englishare attracting listeners in theSolomon Islands and the New Hebridesas well as in PNG.

"The advantages of this new sys-tem are numerous," the paper report-ed, "but most importantly, Governmentwill be in a position to refute anycontroversial statement made in NewZealand almost immediately. The

Trade Commissioner in the Cook Is-lands Government Office in Aucklandwill be able on the advice of this

Government, to reply or comment

through similar channels."

Based on 277,683 letters receiv-ed by Radio Australia, the Austral-ian Broadcasting Commission (ABC)1976-1977 annual report showed the

following percentages of responseto programs: 2.1 percent of mailreceived came from PNG; 40 percentcame from Indonesia; 33.2 percentfrom Japan; 13.1 percent was inChinese; 10.2 percent in English;0.9 percent in French, and 0.5 per-cent in Thai.

New Film On The Solomon IslandsA 16-mm color film showing the

social and economic development ofthe Solomon Islands is scheduledfor production by the Australian Film

Commission. Plans are to film onseveral islands throughout the group.

The film producers will workwith Anna Carven, Curator of theSolomon Islands Museum in Honiara

Other films made by Film Austra-lia in the Pacific include the offi-cial independence films for Fiji and

Papua New Guinea.

The Australia-South Pacific

Newsletter reports that many ofthese films are on free loan through-out the Pacific. They are availableat the following locations: Apia(Nelson Memorial Library); Christ-church (Australian Consulate-Gener-al); Guam (Australian OverseasTelecommunications Commission); Hon-iara (Australian Commission); Majuro(Department of Education); Nauru

(Australian High Commission); Noumea

(Australian Consulate); Nuku'alofa

(Tonga Chronicle) Port Vila (Brit-ish Residency); Tarawa (Gilbert Is-lands Broadcasting and InformationService); Wellington (AustralianHigh Commission).

A musical quiz program in theFrench service to the Pacific, Indo-China, and Africa drew a record re-sponse for this service of 400letters a month.

The language proportion of pro-grams for the period was 55.8 per-cent in English, 16 percent inIndoesian, 8.8 percent in Chinese,and 7 percent in French. The PapuaNew Guinea service, which includes

Simple English and Neo-Melanesian,was 5.3 percent, Japanese 3.5 per-cent, Thai and Vietnamese 1.8 per-cent each.

PACIFICISLANDSCOMMUNICATIONNEWSLETTER

PublisherSocial Sciencesand Linguistics Inst.Donald M. Topping, DirectorPorteus Hall, University of Hawaii

Editor: Jim Rie/,stad (on leave)Acting Editor: Donald Topping,SSL!

Assistant Editor: Susan Alie,,,EWCI

Editorial & Prndnetio: EWCITypesetting & Disiribution: SSU,PINA

Address all correspondence to:The Editor, P1CVEast-West Communication Inst.1777 East-West RoadHonolulu, Hawaii 96848 USA

Rarotonga's PEACESAT Pioneers: Smart & Tercapii Kinganhr Susan A 11,',rRarotonga, (look Islands

Ask anyone who has been inRarotonga for more than a week wherethe Kingans live and they'll prob-ably smile and say, 'follow the road,think antenna, and you (ant missthem."

Kingans' ATS-l PEACESAT operationcenter, with its huge antennatowering above the tr,1i1 islandfoliage, is, in fact, unmistakableto anyone passing along Rarotonga'sone main road. There is littleother evidence of the electronic ageon the island to rorirpete forattention.

Rarotonga has no television and,besides the local radio station'stower a few miles down the road,behind a village school, the onlyother antennas on the small SouthPacific island are an occasionalstrand of wire strung between some-body's duty-free Sony and a coconuttree in order to sharpen thereception from Radio New Zealand,Radio Australia or (on a clear day)perhaps a U.S. station roughly 2.000,3,500 arid 6,1)00 idles, respectively,away.

Except for limited coverage byradio and a hunted and slow printedmedia, PEACESAT is the only source(and signal) of world and regionalnews for the 21,000 Cook Islandresi dents.

little wonder, then, that every-one in the Cooks also knows thestation's olicrat mrs Stuart andlerealni i Kirrrjari. They are two of asmall but hardy band of communica-tors iii the Pd if ic who are over-corning, by sheer will and ingenuity(and some sr elm Ii tape and bailingwire), the lrr'rru'nrdous obstacle tocommunication lid t: Pacific distancespresent.

In Pa rot onm,c, Stuart Kingan isreferred to lormilly a "the madinventor." low he can twist a fewfeet of upper tithing in spiralsaround his banana trees, kick anold rddi mm, and talk to people,I rcst,rrjt I y arid directly, half aworld away is amazing stuff.

A New /e,) arid expatriate, ismiriol,lj i' ivm'ly vital as his tiny

ion, Stuart ha', Ii vi'!if, (1w .,iik, ', i rice 1944 iimI now 'iitumid'', thin' entire Scieritifnm lu''m',irm Ii

Iiu,am I inr'nl for the Cook 1', lanI;ovm'r event He is an inventor

and a scientist and a communicatorand a part-time tinkerer extraord-mare. He is designer, technician,and general handyman for thesatellite terminal in Rarotongaand advisor for many other' terminalsas well. He travels throughout thePacific wiring more and more people

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began she was afraid the equipmentwould break down or she would pushthe wrong buttons and no one wouldhear her. "I waited for my turn totalk, just listening to what theothers did," she said. "1 wasnervous, but I did the same thingthey did--and they heard me?'

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into the world through the satel-lite information system.

Tereapli Kingan, a petite,spirited Cook Island Maori whosename means "long journey to school,"(Stuart's wife of 28 years andmother of three girls, now livingin New Zealand) is Rarotrnmq,c'sPEACESAT station manager arid broad-caster.

Once I ri 1914, when St oar I hadto go set up a new station, he leftTereapii in charge of the hometerminal, and she has been lucreever since. "It.' s very goodworking on liii' satellite," sine

beams, radiating her enthus i,rsmlr.

I sat Ill Ninrqanm's livir'; roomone rainy all errroonm vi ipi nmj lea,looking out through the Ndnr ticket-like fog at people gatheriroj shell-fish along the shore and admiringthe tile floor--a wall-to-wall reapof the world with Rarotonga at thecenter--des iqrred by the "madinventor" himself, while lermiaplitold me about her duties asPEACESAT terminal manager.

''I was afraid I .ouldn' I. (to itthe first day," she remembered."Stuart was walking out the doorsaying 'this switch noes this andthat dial tells you that.' Arid heleft." When the first broadcast

It 'n real/c a /irii'i/eg,' .1'"nnrost /'op/c. you A,mmi it-

It's so/ncr'! li/rig .1/es ia! to

rTiiii' ta/I, on a nOte//i!.

Like the managers of the other16 PEACESAT stations in 15 countriesin and around the Pacific, Tereapii'swork week begins by participating ina Sunday planning session. At thismeeting, managers make the week'sschedule of sessions, arranging forsatellite time through a coordinatingcenter in Honolulu.

"Its educational for' are workinghere.," Tereapii said. [very daythere are new topics: next weekthere is a session to teach NewZealand Maori to local children;today the volunteers frorri PeaceCorps and UNDP and various otheragencies will talk to their counter-parts on other islands; there will beseveral USP classes; art SPC doctorwill contact people in the Gilbertsand New Caledonia about the choleraoutbreak; on Sunday, local lutheranleaders will talk to Lutherans inSt. Paul, Minnesota and Des Moines,Iowa. The only requirement, infact, is that sessions tie educationalin nature.

After the times are set, Ter'eapirmakes the local arrangements. She

contacts people who would be

interested in participating in a

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NEW BOOKSThe Messenler's Motives--EthicalProblems of the News Media by JohnL. Hulteng. Published in 1976 byPrentice-Hall, Inc., Englewood Cliffs,New Jersey 07632, USA. Paper, 262prjes. Price US$7.00.

Hulteng gives careful treatmentto the ethical aspect of news gath-ering and presentation of news to thepublic. His book stresses the impor-tance of wide freedom to publish andto criticize. He details ethicalproblems in the daily routine of ajournalist and offers alternativemeans of strengthening the ethicalhandling of the news.

Village Technology Handbook publish-ed in 1977 by Rural CommunicationServices, 17 St. James St., SouthPetherton, Somerset, England.Approximately 180 pages. PriceUS$3.00 including postage.

The handbook provides specificinformation on more than 200 groupsand persons involved in villagetechnology for development. Thepurpose of the handbook is to helpThird World people communicate withone another and share informationresources. The handbook, describedas modest' by its producers, is inloose-leaf form in the hope that itcan be updated as more informationis gathered.

manualis designed to help churchcommunicators develop a consistentstyle for their publications.

Doing Things Together by AndreasFuglesang. Published in 1977 by TheDag Hanisarskjold Foundation, OvreSlottsgatan 2, S-752 20 Uppsala,Sweden. Hardbound, 108 pages. Price,including postage--surface US$8.35;air US$10.40.

Fuglesang offers insights into

Stylebook for Writers and Editors applied communication for developingedited by Charles M. Austin. Pub- countries through his observations

lished in 1977 by the Lutheran World of the Dag Hannarskjold Workshop on

Federation Office/Office of Communi- Appropriate Technology in Villagecation, 150 Rue de Ferney, 1211 Development held in Papua New Guinea

Geneva, Switzerland. Paper, 37 pages.in 1976. Mostly pictures, the re-

No price listed, port is based on Fuglesang's philos-ophy which makes man both the objectand the means of development. Akin

Based on the stylebook of the to E. F. Schumacher's "Small isNew York Times and adapted for inter- Beautiful' philosophy, it rejectsnational, church-affiliated editors the model of development based onand journalists who use English, this the concept of limitless growth.

PACIFIC BUSINESS, ECONOMICNEWSLETTER BEGINS IN FIJI

A monthly economic newsletter tocover business news and general na-tional development in the SouthPacific Islands region was startedlast summer in Fiji.

Their new publication is theonly one of its type in the SouthPacific Islands and is availableonly by subscription. [US$66 (orequivalent) per year.]

The newsletter, Islands EconomicReport is published by ShirleyBarker, John Vile, and Matt Wilson,all citizens of Fiji.

The October 1977 issue, No. 3 ofthe newsletter, contained more than50 items of economic and businessinterest, as well as "What to WatchFor," "Comments," and "Focus" col-umns. Vile is editor, and Barkerand Wilson are consulting editors.

ISLANDSECONOMICREPORT

The publishers report a "healthyresponse from government and busi-

Barker is publisher of Fijiness leaders and international or-

Beach Press and editor of the monthly ganizations in Fiji, Tonga, Western

South Pacific Business News Vile Samoa, the Solomon Islands, American

has been editor of the Fiji Sun Samoa, and other island countries."

Government publications officer, andassociate editor of the Fiji Times

In addition, Islands Economic

Wilson was chief reporter and poli-Report is circulating in New Zealand,

tical writer for the Fiji Times Australia, Hong Kong, Japan, the

until he founded the South Pacific'sUnited States, and Great Britain.

first public relations company sev-eral years ago. All are correspon-Their mailing address is Islandsdents for overseas media and other Economic Report, P.O. Box 2189, Gov-

organizations. ernment Buildings, Suva, Fiji.

NEW ZEALANDCOMPANY PRODUCESPACIFIC BOOKS

Reed Books Ltd. of New Zealandis producing books related to thePacific Islands for school use andgeneral reading. The Pageant of thePacific series tells of historicaland present-day developments inNew Zealand, the Pacific Islands,Australia, and Asia. Among thetitles are the following: Games theMaoris Played Explorers of NewZealand How the Aborigines Livedand Cattle Kings of AustraliaJapan A Land in Transition andIndonesia A Developing Nation andfor the Pacific: Story of thePacific Islands of the Pacific MapBook of the Pacific The Fiji IslandsThe Marshall Islands The CookIslands Banana Production in thePacific and Papua New Guinea

The 24-page, illustrated booksin this series are $1.25 each.

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High CommissionPublishes Newsletter

ie Australian High Commissionin Suva is publishing a new news-utter to help better understande relationships between Australia

and islands of the South Pacific.

PNG Launches Firstfrom Wantok Publications

Papua Nun' Guinea

Papua New Guineas first four-color monthly magazine was launchedearlier this year. It s thesecond publication to be started byWantok Publications, a non-profitmaking association, backed by themajor churches in Papua New Guinea.Tnri+4..,

The monthly Australia-South''

Wantok, the country's only national New Nation began in August

Pacific Newsletter publishes releases newspaper in Melanesian Pidgin,with a print run of 5,000 and has

from the Austraflin Information ended the year with a run of 12,000

Service on events about Australia for the November-December double

and its activities in the area issue. The Education Departmenthas brought 4,000 copies for dis-bounded approximately by Papua New

Guinea, the Gilbert Islands, the tribution to primary schools.

Cook Islands, and New Zealand.

Robert Curtis, First Secretaryof Information, is in charge of theoperation. Inquiries should be '

sent to the Australian InformationService, Australian High Commission,Dominion House, Suva, Fiji.

New PacificJournal

The Hawaii branch of BrighamYoung University at Laie, Hawaii, isstarting a new journal titledPacific Studies the first issue ofwhich is now in press.

For information about this newjournal write to Dr. Robert Craig,Box 44, Laie, Hawaii 96762.

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A series of Pan Pacific Booksexplore various subjects that areintended to provide backgroundmaterial for social studies cur-riculums in the schools. These 48-page, illustrated books include:Fishermen of the Pacific Islands,Children of the Pacific, and NTku'Alofa A Study of Urban Life inthe Pacific Islands

The books in this series are$1.65.

Other books available throughReed Books on the Pacific include:Polynesian Navigation DescriptiveAtlas of the Pacific Faces of FijiPacific Island Portraits and others.

The prices are in N.Z. currencyand do not include the cost of packiiand postage. A bank draft for thecost of the total amount should ac-company all orders. Further infor-mation on these and other books andrecords can be obtained by writingto Reed Books Ltd., Box 6454 Te Aro,Wellington, New Zealand.

The magazine, New Nation wasstarted with the main aim ofreaching the country's large schoolpush-out' population. These are

young people with several years'education in English whose schoolinghas been cut short because there arenot enough high schools to accomo-date them all.

Most of the reading materialgenerally available, with the ex-ception of comics, is beyond thereading comprehension level of thisaudience. Even the country's dailynewspaper is often too difficult forthem.

The format for New Nation wasclearly indicated, therefore it

Color Magazineshould be bright and colorful witha variety of content and simplicityof language. Although English isthe official language of thecountry, for most Papua New Guineansit is either a second or even thirdlanguage and proficiency is oftennot very high.

The magazine has been wellreceived in rural and urban areasthroughout the country and thepublishers have been encouraged bythe response from readers andvoluntary contributors.

New Nation was started with thehelp of Voluntary Service Overseas,a British agency concerned withThird World Development. Theyrecruited a young Scottish couple,Charles and Katrina McGhee, toundertake the project.

Charles formerly worked as ajournalist with BBC radio and tele-vision news in Scotland and Katrinawas employed as a secretary.

Editorial and Advertising Officesare at P.O. Box 1982, Boroko, PapuaNew Guinea

ESG PROGRAM HALTED IN TTThe Trust Territory Education

for Self-Government Program has beensuspended by High CommissionerAdrian Winkel.

The ESG program, which has beenin existence since 1975, was a TrustTerritory-wide education programfunded by the American administra-tion and headed by an American ex-Peace Corps Volunteer. Theresponsibilities of ESG were to pro-vide the people of Micronesia withobjective informatinn on issuesrelating to self-government, future

igpolitical status and the governmentin general.

The ESG program was ordered dis-continued by the High Commissionerbecause it was outdated in itsconcepts. As Ambassador Peter R.Rosenblatt put it: 'ESG has concen-

trated exclusively since late 1975on the draft constitution and al-though the draft constitution hasbeen explained in great detail ithas been presented in isolation fromany alternative ideas and, impor-tantly, in isolation from politicalstatus options. The futurepolitical status aspirations ofdifferent parts of the T.T. whichhave resulted in this presentnegotiating format, among otherthings, have not been fully endeffectively explained through ESG.'

Some Micronesians pointed outthat the determining factor in thedecision to discontinue the programwas the strong opposition to ESGfrom the Marshalls and Palau statuscommissions, both of which haveopted for separate political statusnegotiations with the U.S.

Prince & Rutgers Expand Tahiti's English-Language Newspaperby Susan AllenPapecte, Tahiti

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The Tahiti Bulletin Tahiti'sonly English-language newspaper, waspurchased by Nicholas G. Rutgers andAl Prince in early 1977 from Veraand James Boyach, who founded thefive-times a week tabloid in 1967.

New publisher, Rutgers, son-in-law of James Hall (Mutiny on theBounty and long-time Tahiti resi-dent, and editor Prince, Massachu-setts-born newspaperman and editor ofthe paper since 1970, said they haveplans to expand the paper's facil-ities and its scope in the nearfuture.

"The Tahiti Bulletin is the onlyinternationally focused newspaper inTahiti,' Rutgers said. "We monitorshortwave broadcasts from VOA, BBC,the Armed Forces Station--or anyother broadcasts that are coming inon a given day and report the majornews stories from the U.S. and theworld for Tahiti's English-readingpopulation."

This is a time-consuming chorefor Prince, but it is the only fastway to receive news directly fromthe United States in Tahiti.

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A new telex will give thejjtjBulletin access to AEP wire servicenews, also, but shortwave stationswill remain a major source of U.S.and world news because, they say, itis faster than AFP.

Most of the people in Tahiti-don't demand fresh news," Prince

said. "They are content to think ofthemselves as isolated, and their

I interests are local.' Besides localnews, Prince said Tahiti's onlycm-'munication links have been with

01 France and, in large part, it is stilltrue.

AlPrince, Editor of the TahitiBulletin since 1970, monitorsshortwave broadcastsfor US.and world news.

Tahiti's only wire service isAFP, from France, which the otherthree Tahiti papers use exclusively,Prince said. La Depeche de TahitiLe Journal de Tahiti and Les Nou-velles de Tahiti are all publishedin French and are locally focused,except for the news they receive viaFrance.

The Tahiti Bulletin is primarilya tourist newspaper. The new ownersliken it to a combination of theInternational Herald Tribune and theWaikiki Beach Press (a free tabloidfor tourists in Hawaii).

"Like the Beach Press our paperis free and we hope to keep it free,"Rutgers said. "But like the Tri-bune our primary goal is to providethe news of the day in English fortourists. We also act as a publicinformation medium for Tahiti," hesaid.

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TELECOMMUNICATIONSTRAINING CENTER OPENS

WANTOK LOSES RIGHTSPNG DISPUTE CONTINUES

The latest word from PNG on the

struggle between Wantok and the PostCourier over the "Phantom" comicstrip is that the popular jungle herohas disappeared from the pages ofWantok and has been replaced by theDavid Cook Foundation's MelanesianPidgin translation of the Old Testa-ment.

A regional telecommunicationstraining center to train staff to"Yaffa had bowed to pressure fromoperate and maintain the tele-the owners of the daily Post Courier communications network in the regionin Papua New Guinea, who look on Wan- has been established in Suva, PIMtok as a competitor," Action reported. reported.

The Post Courier is owned by TheHerald and Weekly Times Company ofAustralia. The Australian ReligiousPress Association has called on For-eign Minister Michael Peacock to in-tervene.

Fiji, Tonga, Western Samoa, theCook Islands, Niue, and the NewHebrides will participate in theregional center programs. in addi-tion, there are basic trainingAction reported tnai. On Muyus'. I

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Yaffa Syndicate of Australia, which "Rowan Callick, Wantok's chief of centers in the Cooks. Tonga, and

controls the rights to the "Phantom", staff, reports that Wantok Publica-Western Samoa.

refused to send more strips to Wantok tions' latest venture, a color maga-thus causing the Australian Religious zine in English for young people, New proje. - rLe: t,

aPress Association to say: Nation, has sold out its first two United Nations Development Program

editions, putting further pressure on (UNDP), the International Tele-the Post Courier management," Action communications Union, the Common-

"Wantok is being damaged in an said. (See related story on New Na- wealth Fund for Technical Cooperation,exercise in bullying in which Austra- tion)Australia and New Zealand.la's biggest publishing group ap-pears to have a shameful part. Inour opinion it is one more tragedy A Ray Hillier, of the Australianto add to Australia's abuse of post- U*PA Commission, iscolonial stewardship."thesenior training advisor.

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session; she prepares a programschedule for publication in thelocal newspaper; finally, sheengineers the sessions themselves.

Tereapii has also begun broad-casting Rarotongas news for PacificRound-up, the Pacific Island newsexchange session. Each Wednesdayevening, at 4:30 Cook Island time,participating terminals share localnews with one another. For thoseterminals allowed to participate,this is the fastest, most directregional news service in the Pacific.(Fiji, and the Islands whose licensesFiji holds--Gilbert Islands, BritishSolomon Islands, and Western Samoa--are not participating at this time.)

Broadcasting the news isTereapiis favorite part of the job.'It's good for me, said RarotongasBarbara Walters, and it's the bestway to tell other islands about ournews. She also transcribes newsfrom the other islands' broadcastsfor publication in The Cook IslandNews Friday paper.

Meeting new people from all overthe Pacific is another advantage ofa satellite job, Tereapii said.Most of them I know only by voice,but a few have visited here, likeCarol Misko from Honolulu and Elsaand Tony from Wellington." But it'salso fun meeting the people who comehere as participants.

"Sessions held over PEACESAT aregood for the people, too, she said.'Local people wont come out and sayit like Europeans would--they're kindof quiet. But they get a lot out ofthe sessions."

"It's really a privilege for mostpeople, you know. It's somethingspecial to come talk on a satellite."

Political Cartoonist Criticizes

Misuse Of Comic BooksComic book publishers who claim

their highly profitable publicationshelp readers towards literacy areattacked by Eduardo del Rio, who,under the name of Rius, is Mexico'sbest-known political cartoonist.

which tackles serious social andpolitical issues. With a circula-tion of 120,000, Los_ chados hasdealt with such delicate themes asgovernment repression, guerrillamovements, inflatior, and corruption

"These comic books are totallyalienating," del Rio claims in astory in the September 5 New YorkTimes. "They give people somethingto do without thinking--a sort ofconsolation for their poverty."

Vet millions of Mexicans readcomic books such as Kaliman the"incredible man," Tears, and Laughterand Love a printed soap opera, eachof which sells 1.3 million copies aweek. (By comparison, Mexico'slargest circulation daily newspaperprints 200,000 copies.) The storiesare almost always about excellingand succeeding, the Times said, and"good" invariably triumphs. Aprominent comic publisher said he hassucceeded in his aim, if he can"amuse them and remove them, if onlyfor a few minutes, from their hum-drum lives."

Some observers think "thedifficulty many Mexicans have withreading attracts them to comic booksSome 20 percent of the adult popula-tion is illiterate, and partialilliteracy affects many more people,who probably feel more comfortablereading stories with the assistanceof drawings," the Times articlereported.

LITTLE TAKESBut del Rio and others say the

KVZK-TV POSTThomas Little has been appoint-

ed General Manager of KVZK-TV in PagPago, American Samoa. Mr. Littlereplaces Jon A. Anderson who has be-come General Manager of KUAM-AM, FM,TV in Agana, Guam. Mr. Little hasworked in both commercial and PublicTelevision and holds B.A. and M.A.degrees from UCLA. He is presentlyon a two year leave of absence fromhis position as General Manager ofKVCR-TV, FM in San Bernardino, Cali-fornia.

books are harmful to society. "Theytry to entertain with idioticstories and with the lowest forms ofsex and violence and cheap melo-drama," he said. "The comic booksare of a very poor cultural leveland rarely try to encourage thereader to use his imagination."

del Rio maintains, however, thatit is the use of the comic ratherthan the comic itself that is bad.For more than a decade del Rio haspublished a series called Los

jados, or The Stooped is.

"Increasingly the political po-tential of comic books is beingrecognized," he said. They are usedto carry messages to peasants andworkers often using simple anecdotesand drawings. The government hasalso turned to comic books topromote its programs, particularlyits nationwide campaign for familyplanning.

Comic books are a powerful toolfor communication, especially in acountry where many people findreading difficult. "Comic bookscan be good or bad," del Rio said."It's just a question of how they'reused."

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Besides the news stories, theTahiti Bulletin publishes items forthe tourist trade, like a map ofPapeete with points of interestmarked, airline schedules, postalrates, and it includes the dailyU.S. financial quotations andsports scores.

The Tahiti Bulletin has acirculation of about 1,000 and isdistributed to hotels and put onairplanes.

INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Beginning in late 1977 theI1iitLBuUetin will begin produc-ing a once-a-month "InternationalEdition." It is a promotionalpublication which will be distri-buted to all parts of the world viaairline companies and the Tahititourist authorities.

The format will be similar tothe regular edition but the newedition will be published in Japa-nese, Spanish and French, as well asEnglish.

SAVALI: WESTERN SAMOA'S GOVT. NEWSPAPERhi Mike FieldApia, Western Samoa

The English edition is normallyeight pages and is printed on bond

paper. This type of paper allowsUIIfllCICfl LJuU'cJr; 5)1

pIl5)U 01)113

andgraphic

material, and we haveThe Western Samoan Government's 4 found that the use of a large number

newspaper, is the nation'sphotographs gives the English

longest-surviving newspaper, withedition of Savali a readership it

history dating back to the Germannormally does not have.colonial days prior to World War i.

IOther newspapers have been

started, but for mainly economic Y After 14 issues of the Englishreasons, they have always been edition it is not yet possible toforced under. The recent tenth S

measure its impact, but occasionallybirthday of The Samoa Times was sig-

'it is possible to see where it is

nI a news m ing its mark. Extracts fromificant for it proved thYt I '1 01, akpaper can be a commercial propositionSavali stories have appeared in Newin Western Samoa. 7os,ls,n,l n rlns- nn 4fl+.fl,4nn,,i

Savali has never had to be acommercial venture. It has alwaysbeen distributed free of charge andin its original form was little morethan a government gazette. Tradi-

tionally, it has published legalnotices such as land transactions,trade marks and price applications.It also publishes the matai titles

(family heads) and thus allows for

the possibilities of appeal againstthe applying of these titles byinterested parties in the Lands and

Titles Court. Publication of thetitles in Savali is an essential

part of the iudicial process and iswritten into a number of acts.

.11, Al, I z wire services over Radio Australia

and in PIM. We also like to believethat the writers on Pacific affairs

1 are now better briefed on WesternSamoa.

"Sa'vali cclitor Mike Field andjournalist trainee Eec/inc Tumaliilook overa store fhr Savali."

For many years it has been

apparent that the people, and to acertain extent, the governments, ofthe major Pacific powers have

regarded the Pacific nations astourist states inhabited by care-free natives happy with their lot.The English edition of Savali is

The other function of Savali has one attempt to show thalernbeen to be a government news sheet Samoa is a modern political entityproviding news in both English and with programs of rural development,Samoan of events around the Islands education, health, welfare, foreignand of parliamentary proceedings and affairs, and a range of otherdecisions of the cabinet. Savali is government activities.the only newspaper that regT13Treaches the outlying villages on bothAs an organ of the PrimeUpolu and Savaii. It is distributed Minister's Department the newspaperfree through the village pJJJLJ. is non-critical of the Government;(mayors). it simply states the Governments

point-of-view. That is itsEarlier this year, at the request function. But, unlike totalitarian

of Prime Minister Tupuola Efi, under press systems, Westarn Samoa'swhose department Savali operates, other newspapers have rightsthe newspaper broke into two fort- guaranteed by the constitution. Thenightly editions, one in English and Government of Western Samoa does notone in Samoan. The Samoan edition suppress indepedent newspapers andremains essentially the same as the the government has to take its turnold English edition, although it now in the line when it wants to expresscarries no English news. The new its point-of-view in the independentEnglish edition does not publish the press.legal notices.

The English edition of SavaliThe English edition of Savali is not a big seller even though at

has a heavy public relations slant io seno a copy it is cheaper thanand a large overseas mailing list, any other paper. The three inde-The philosophy in producing the news-pendant newspapers seem to sell

paper has been to try to make the well because they publish, in parts,opinion makers in the Pacific-- Samoan translations of best sellingpoliticians, newspaper editors, and books. The lack of Samoan in thepressure group leaders--more aware English edition is also a salesof Samoan activities, handicap.

(Savali is published fort-

nightly by the Prime Ministers

Department, P.O. Box 193, Apia,Western Samoa.

Micronesian Review

Started by Heine

Carl Heine, author of Micro-nesia at the Crossroads has starteda new publication, Micronesian Per-spective: A Contemporary Review,with the first issue dated October,1977.

The editors message in thefirst issue includes the following:"Micronesian Perspective is the

beginning6Tiolfflu1y reviewof commentary and analysis of con-

temporary issues affecting the

thirty year relationship betweenMicronesia and the United States.

The islands of Micronesia are thelast U.N. Trusteesni? left i: theworld and the only U.S. overseasTrust Area highi tainted with co-lonialism. Micronesian Perspectivewill explore this remaining but

challenging frontier. There are noaxes to grind and no favors to re-

pay.-

Information about this new publi-cation can be obtained by writing toMicronesian Perspective P.O. Box25322, Honolulu Hawaii 96825.