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TRANSCRIPTION (IF MEETING BETWEEN DOE REPRESENTATIVE
AND GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS OF THE REPUBLIC OF THE
MARSHALL ISLANDS AT MAJURO
DECEMBER 8 AND 9, 1982

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The purpose of the meeting was to present to and discuss with the governmerit”officials of the Rep~blic of the Marshall Islands, two publications:
“The Meaning of Radiation for Those Atolls in the Northern Part of the
Marshall Islands That Were Surveyed in 1978” and “The Northern Marshall
Islands Radiological Survey: Terrestrial Food Chain and Total Doses.”
Those present were:
Senator Ishmael John
Senator Calep Rantak
Senator Ataji Baloo
Senator Donald Matthew
Minister Jeton Anjain
Minister Tom Kijiner
Senator Tokwa Tomeing
Senator Katip Mack
Mayor Jabwe Jorju
Major Necheld Leem
Mayor Elden Juda
Senator Report Emmius
Mayor Aneo Keju.
Senator Mwejor Mathusala
Oscar deBrum
Phil Muller
Suzanne Cowan

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DOE:
Mr. Roger Ray
Dr. William Robison
Dr. Tommy McCraw
Mr. Harry Brown
Dr. William Bair
Mrs. Alice Buck
Mr. Reynold deBrum
The following is an unedited verbatim transcription of the English language
portion of a recording made of the two-day meeting.
Since it was not
possible.to identify with certainty all of the Marshallese speakers, they
,,are identified in most cases as “Marshallese.”
From their translated
..‘,.
,.comments it is frequently possible to identify the atoll they represent and
...for,.many of these it might be possible to identify the speaker. The translator, Mrs. Alice Buck, is identified in the transcript as the speaker only
when she spoke for herself. Conversations and discussions among the
English speaking participants that were not translated into Marshallese are
given in parenthesis.
A few words are left blank in the transcript because
they were not recognizable to us. The addition of these and the identity

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