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 170 WS038