WALLIS AND FUTUNA POLITICIAN FOUND DEAD

FUTUNA, Wallis and Futuna (April 6, 1998 - Radio Australia)---A prominent political leader in the French Pacific territory of Wallis and Futuna was found dead Sunday under suspicious circumstances.

A car belonging to Senator Sosefo Makape Papilio --a politician for 27 years and a member of the pro-French RPR party-- was located underwater several yards from the end of a Futuna wharf. Papilio's body was inside.

Police are investigating.