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Celebrating the Hundredth Issue
10 Years Ago in Pacific Magazine
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The July/August 1993 Pacific Magazine was the 100th issue in the 17th year of publication. The cover contains cover miniatures from 15 years of the magazine. The first cover, a photo taken by founding publisher Bruce Jensen, shows a group of Satawal mariners who had come to Chuuk in a traditional canoe for provisions. The issue carries a brief item about the sentencing of Palau political leader John O. Ngiraked, who had just been sentenced to life in prison after being found guilty of masterminding the assassination of the country's first president, Haruo I. Remeliiik in 1985. Giff Johnson reports in this issue about the Department of Interior's release of funds for the reconstruction of Ebeye. It is also reported that the Northern Marianas fears labor practice scandals in Saipan may move some operations to American Samoa, where the-then Governor A.P. Lutali administration was concluding an agreement with the U.S. Capstone Corporation which would allow it to produce clothing labeled "Made in the U.S.A." for outlets such as J.C. Penney and Sears. We know now that garment production in American Samoa has a history as questionable as the operations in the CNMI. Visitor arrivals in Fiji were at 22,206 in March 1993, a slight increase over the same month in 1992. Vanuatu also reports 1992 was a record year for visitor arrivals. The 16th annual Pacific Telecommunications Conference was announced for 1994 in Honolulu. It continues a decade later. There are special reports on American Samoa, Cook Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, Fiji, French Polynesia, Guam, the Marshalls, New Caledonia, Niue, CNMI, Palau, Papua New Guinea, the Solomons, Tonga, Tuvalu and Western Samoa. In the Fiji overview, Norman Douglas, who also still writes for us, examined the complex racial politics of Fiji-a fact of life that persists, in all its complexity, to this day. Presciently, the editors' introduction to the country overviews says, "Nuclear bomb testing will pass, but global warming won't."
