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THE HONORABLE M. YOUNG VIVIAN, SECRETARY GENERAL OF THE SOUTH PACIFIC C011MISSION

August 20

August 16, 1979-~

The Honorable ~1. YOUNG VIVIAN, Secretary-General of the South Pacific Commis­sion, and Hr. WILLIAM T. BROWN, Director of Programs, South Pacific Commission, will be on campus August 20 to 23. tfr. Vivian was appointed by the Eighteenth South Pacific Conference to succeed Dr. E. MACU SALATO as Secretary-General of the South Pacific Commission, and he took up duty at the beginning of July.

Mr. Vivian comes from Niue. He is married, with seven children. He holds a Teachers' Certificate and a Diploma in the Teaching of English as a Second Language, and worked for some ten years as a teacher, first in New Zealand and then in Niue. Since 1969 he has been an Elected Member of the Niue Assembly. Before taking up his appointment with SPC, Mr. Vivian was Minister of Education, Agriculture, Economic Development, Cultural Activities and Women's, Youth and Sporting Activities, and Chairman of the Niue Development Board. He has also held the portfolios of Tourism, Forestry and Fisheries.

From 1970 to 1973 Mr. Vivian was a member of Niue's constitutional negotiation team. In 1973 and 1974 he attended sessions of the United Nations Fourth Committee as a member of the New Zealand mission to the United Nations to discuss Niue's constitutional status.

Mr. Vivian has travelled widely on behalf of the Niue Government, both within and beyond the SPC region. He has been leader or member of the Niue delega­tion at a number of international meetings, including six South Pacific Conferences.

He brings to the South Pacific Commission a wealth of first-hand knowledge of the region's development problems, and a sympathetic understanding of the needs of small Island countries and territories.

The agenda for Secretary-General Vivian's visit to Hawaii has been arranged by the Pacific Islands Studies Program and the President's Office East-West Center.

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A seminar with the Secretary-General is scheduled for:

Time: 2:30 p.m . .Honday, August 20

Place: Social Science Research Institute Conference Room, Porteus 704F

HISA LUNCHEON WITH SECRETARY­GENERAL VIVIAN & MR. BROWN

August 23

In addition to the above descr ed seminar, Program, the East-West Center, and the Hawaii (HISA) are sponsoring a luncheon meet with .Hr. BROWN. A flier and reservations for

ific Islands Studies International Services Agency Secretary-General VIVIAN and the luncheon appears as page 9

of this Newsletter.

Time: 12 Noon - 1.45 p.m. Thursday, August 23

Place: Hawai Kamani Room

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PIP SE.HINAR: LANKA AND TOURISM

August

Mr. JOHN AMARATUNG, Member of Parliament, Sri Lanka (District of Wattala) will speak at a PIP seminar on August 24. His subject will be on Sri Lanka's plans for the development of a tour t industry, and he will invite comments and observations about the development of tourism in other island nations.

Time: 10:00 a.m. Friday, August 24

Place: Social Science Research Institute Conference Room, Porteus 704F

PIP SEMINAR: CONTEMPORARY PONAPEAN POLITICS

August 28

The Department of Anthropology and the cosponsor a seminar with Dr. GLENN Anthropology, Baruch College, The Ci

c Islands Studies Program will , Department of Sociology and

of New York. Dr. Petersen is an anthropologist who has been politics. He is returning

ting res on contemporary Ponapean a summer's fieldwork on Ponape and will discuss

his recent research.

Time: 10:00 a.m. t 28

Place: e

P SEMINAR· AMBASSADOR FELDMAN

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The Honorable HARVEY FELDMAN was recently confirmed by States Senate as the new Ambassador to New Guinea and the Solomon Is He replaces Ambassador MARY OLMSTED. Ambassador Feldman will be en route to PNG in mid-September, and he will speak at a PIP seminar.

Time: 9:00 a.m. Friday, September 14

Place: Social Science earch Institute ---

Conference Room, Porteus 704F

The following item, "Diplomatic Slip Borne in Silence," appeared in the Washington Post, July 26, 1979:

A senior U.S. senator today told an ambassador being appointed to Papua, New Guinea and the Solomon Islands: "Don't. let the people like you so much eat you up."

Sen. Claiborne Pell (D-R.I.), a former diplomat, made the remark during a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hear on the nomination of Feldman as ambassador to the t~o countries.

Pell's comment was met with a diplomatic silence. ln the same hear the senator asked Feldman: "The Solomon Islands. You hear a lot about them. Where exac are they?"

PIP SEMINAR: AMBASSADOR PETER ROSENBLATT

On Tuesday, August 7, a PIP seminar was held with Ambassador PETER ROSENBLATT, President Carter's Personal Representative for the Micronesia Status t tions. Ambassador Rosenblatt had just returned from Micrones , and ported on the current status negotiations with the Federated States of nesia, the Marshall Islands, and Palau. The topic was of considerable interest; approximately 50 people attended.

PIP SEMINAR: AMBASSADOR PAULIAS N. MATANE

On Monday, August 13, His Excellency PAULIAS N. MATANE, Papua New 's Ambassador to the United Nations, United States, and Mexico and High Commis-sioner to Canada, spoke to a seminar cosponsored by the Pacific Islands S es Program and Open Grants, East-West Center. His topic was contemporary political and economic development Papua New Guinea.

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Checks should be made payable to "Regents, University of California.~~ price of each publication includes postage via surface mail. At er's request, orders can be sent Airmail - Bookrate, but an appropriate charge will be added to cover the extra expense. The following publications are available:

Monograph Series:

New Neighbors ... Islanders in Adaptation, Bradd Shore, Cluny Macpherson and Robert W. Franco, Editors, 1978. $10.50.

A New Kind of Sugar; Tourism in the Pacific, Reprint of the East st Center, Honolulu, publication, 1975. Ben Finney & Karen Watson-Gegeo, Eds. $8.00.

Micronesian Realities - Political and Economic, Frances McReynolds Published 1972. $5.00.

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Political Modernization of Micronesia, Frances McReynolds Smith, Ed. 1969. $5.00.

Data Paper Series:

Rajotte, Freda. A Method for the Evaluation of Impact of Tourism August, 1978. $5.00.

Howie, Ian. The Effects of Foreign Investment, Reprinted from ing Australian Colony, B. Noone, Ed., Int'l. Dev. Action, Me $2.00.

Premdas, Ralph P. Toward a Papua New Guinea Foreign Policy: Constra Choice. January, 1977. $2.00.

Farrell, Bryan H. Tourist Ghettos of Hawaii, Reprinted from Themes on Lands, Edited with M.C.R. Edgell, 1974. $2.00.

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Skinner, Carlton. Nauru, The Remarkable Community, Reprinted le Journal de la Societies des Oceanistes, 1976. $2.00.

Farrell, Bryan H. Fijian Land: A Basis for Intercultural Variance, ed M.C.R. Edgell, Ibid. $2.00.

Farrell, Bryan H. and Peter E. Murphy. Ethnic Attitudes Toward 1978. $3.00.

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Felts, Margaret. Archives of the South Pacific Commission and Relat er , 1978. $2.00.

Research Priorities in Pacific Tourism, A Satellite Discussion on Network, Edited by B.H. Farrell, 1977. $5.00.

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TiillRSDAY, AUGUST 23, 1979

12 Noon - 1:45 p.m. Hawaiian Regent Hotel - Kamani Room (Kuhio Tower - in the new wing) $9. 00 per person, includes luncheon & parking

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This program is sponsored by the East-West Center, Pacific Island Studies Program of the University of Hawaii, and Hawaii Internatio~~z Services Acency, State of Hawaii

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