401286
Central Office
oe Fs
December 21,
1978
Jonathan M. Weisgall
Covington & Burling
888 Sixteenth Street, N.W.
Washington, D.C.
20006
Dear Jonathan:
I write to you in your capacity as
attomey for
the People of Bikini; my subject is the need of a Long
term radiological health program for the People of
Enewetak, the People of Rongelap, and the People of
Utirik, all of whom we represent, a need which I be-
lieve your clients share with mine.
I would like to meet with you within the next
several months to discuss whether we can coordinate our
separate efforts to mutual benefit.
I will be on
Saipan the first three weeks of January.
If the next
round of status talks are here and you will be participating, we could do it then.
Otherwise,
I expect to
be in Washington the latter half of February.
In
anticipation of more detailed conversations with you,
let me outline very briefly what I have in mind.
An appropriate radlological program for all of
these islands is a fairly complicated and costly busi-
ness and for it to be of real benefit it will almost
certainly have to continue forever, although its exact
content will vary over time.
Its major elements should