never
taken positive action
regaraing this matter whicn is, essentially, a
situation unicue to the Marshall Islands District.
This statement, however,
shoulc
not he construed to imply that district problems snould only he handled at the
district level,
The Committee is only too hamry to carry out the recuirements of
its mandate where local remedy nas failed to rectify a local problem,
The
Committee also wishes to note its displeasure with actions by certain non-Micronesians
at the Headquarters Administration level.
Specifically,
tne Committee notes that
the expulsion of the Japanese survey team by the ‘rust Territory Administration in
December of 1971 may have ultimately resulted in the delay of the annual
survey scheduled three months later.
While a naranoid interpretation of
the rossible propaganda use of the visit by certain Japanese in the group
way have been a consideration,
the expulsion not only was an affront to
the people of Rongelap and Utirik, but also a shameful and embarrassing,
experience fo Dr.
Haruo Exaki,
one of
the foremost Japanese surgeons with
impeccable credentials in the field of radiation-induced effects on the
thyroid.
The Committee is alse displeasec to note certain actions and
allegations made by the ‘trust Territory Administration in connection with
the aborted March,
time to join
1972,
survey.
the team in March was an “unknown.”
including such reonle as Ur.
heard of hin.
The one Japanese doctor who did arrive in
Darling,
Dr.
iio one in Japan--
Kumatori and Dr.
Ezaki--had ever
tee
This doctor himself told mombers of the Committee that he
had little backyround in thyroid and radiation and that he was not particularly
interested in the peoples' problems.
something about the case.
lather, he was interested in writing
‘fhe executive branch has charged that Dr. Maal
was persuaded hy an “outside influence" not to come on the March survey.
The Coruni.ttee has questioned this “oulside influence" and he has stated that
Guring his meeting with the dactor, he tried to encourage him to go on the trin
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