he eMedia ate pada eet Admiral Mustin, Colone! Rawlings and Ogle inspect the BIKINI . .. mess hall on Bikini Island. Building is in relatively good condition except that it lacks roof covering. continued from page 6 had its story the lettuce airlift for Jack Clark’s birthday on Able Island; the helicopter evacuation of Clark and Gaelen Felt from the control bunker on Enyu after a shot which raised the radiation level above acceptable levels; a cryptic notation on a switchbox about Dennis . . the Menace; the castle-like station on George Island first used by Felt and later by Art Cox, J-15 group leader, and the nearby camp on Fox swamped and battered by an unexpectedly highyield thermonuclear shot on Operation Castle; the helicopter taxi service to work stations all over the atoll; and at day’s end the Bikini martini, the driest of all, which still gets its vermouth from that bottle supposedlyattached to one of the early bombs by a scientist who will remain unnamed, On Enyu, cleanup is well along with most expendable structures already razed and hauled to the barges which will dump the debris into the sea. Incidentally, the principal hazard from most of the debris on Bikini and Enyu1s believed to be more of an industrial type rather than radiologi- cal. But when the Bikinians do return, they will be well looked after. The AEC, charged with the 8 radiological safety of the islanders, has appointed Dr. Robert A. Conard, Brookhaven National Laboratory, to conductroutine medical surveillance of the people as they come back to their homeatoll. The ad hoc consultant committee which, in 1968, declared the atoll once moresafe for human habitation also recommended, as a reasonable pre- caution, that continual checks be made on the Bikinians’ radiation exposurestatus after their return to the atoll. Dr. Conard has just returned from Kili, where the former Bikinians nowlive. While there he began his baseline studies by ob- taining urine samples from about half of the first work party going back to help rehabilitate the atoll. Detailed plans for the medical surveillance are not yet complete, but are expected to center on urine analyses and whole body counting. Dr. Conard believes that there will probably be some measurable increase in the radioactive body burden of the returned Bikinians after they are living on the homeatoll, but it will be very low and is not expected to cause any medical problem. continued on page 10