: Wedinesday, April 9,,1975 Honolulu Star-Bulletin vy. ' ee “After.20.Years | « . ad - ww & 7 reo wrlUlUcThlhCU DS! , eae FalloutEffects_ ‘orryy Islanders. aaall‘those still in* the’ ” _gualified doctors be “From generation to generation we went -without worrying about anything,”” said the mayor of womb:at the time of the ~based on Rongelaptopro‘vide daily medical serv- : NO ‘fallout. 4 tiny Rongelap Island in <- HE SAID the United ice. me ’ States deported a.Japa- — —Radiation experts and- - Micronesia. nese. medical team that. ‘medical doctors, preferably including some from Then in 1954 the United ‘States set off H-bomb “had been invited by ‘theBravo on Bikini, and the © people to conduct physical radioactive fallout drifted examinations. Anjian would like toand fell dike snow on Ron’ geiap and its 86 residents. - send four or five of his people to Japanese docSince then, said Mayor tors in Hiroshima to be Netson Angian, *‘We worry all the time. We- “examined. ~ are worried about our ~ “In.a petition to ‘the lives and we don’t know Secretary General of .the what is happening.”’ Hiroshima, survey Ron- gelap andissue individual diagnoses. -—The Atomic Commission no longer be permitted to use the people of Rongelap and adjacent Utirik as “guinea pigs” for their bomb-related re- ‘United Nations and the _ Search. ‘United Nations Trustee- Anjian said his people shave appealed time and .. Ship Council, Anjian is -again to the United States for adequate medical : eare. American doctors visit the island and exam- to a asking that: i “vive:today, Anjian said. . ONLY 35 of those ex- . ~’ He said the population ‘posed to the radiation: sure “of: Rongelap is now .200, > ‘ine the people twice a -year now rather than ieee-wand that they want to stay ~< «with the current adminisc tration of the Trust Terri. tory. times a -week,”’ he said, *. .He said -money on Ron. gelap is: noproblem. “In three months we ‘can “ make .20 to 25‘tons~-of «. copra. “From the sale of cannot be eaten every ; ‘ -once. “THEY TELL us to eat coconut crab only three but do not explain why it © /coconut, breadfruit, *. pandanus,- fish and shell. fish, he said. He said he has 9-chil © ‘, dren, and earns about $1,000 a year, which is » enough to support his wife and family. . -For 27 years he worked © why.” on Kwajalein as a carpen- - Anjian said 19 persons “ter, and returned to his _ have died in Mainland * native island a little over a year ago. . hospitals of leukemia, . “but we deg't know why - they die on ongelap.’’. ‘Many of the people -of his island havehad surgery for thyroid tumors, he said, including all ‘ those that were children’ copra, the people buy im- ported rice, flour, sugar -’ and kerosene.”’ They eat. day. “We don’t eat it at all now. We are afraid,” he . Said. “They say don't worry. Don’t question the doctor,” he said, ‘‘and they give the people pills. We . don't know what for or “e ‘Nelson Anjian 4 _ “Don’t talk to me about 42212 ~" money,” he said. '. “Money is nothing. My _ € life is important. . ‘ “The life of my people is important.’’