...tourist industry. Hours after the release of the last 18 of dozens of hostages seized by rebels on May 19, the Great Council of Chiefs -- Fiji's traditional power -- elected Ratu Josefa Iloilo as the country's new president. Iloilo was rebel...

...crisis by declaring martial law Monday. The rebels and the military agreed to put two options to the influential Great Council of Chiefs: let the military run Fiji until a new constitution is drawn up and elections called or allow a civilian government...

...agreement signed by rebel leader George Speight and the military, the captives are to be freed Thursday, when the Great Council of Chiefs will convene from around the small islands that comprise the South Pacific nation to choose a new president...