Who was it that you had thought would be in this meeting?
Marshallese:
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We had expected to see representatives
of the leadership of the
atolls that were surveyed and any other members of the Nitijella, any
members of the government.
accommodated
We were prepared to have whoever might be
in whatever space would be provided.
I think it was left
entirely to the government to make the choice of who would be here to
listen to us.
Buck: We have another question here.
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Yes.
Marshallese:
The title of the book as presented here on the book says this
report concerns atolls in the northern part of the Marshalls.
Now just
which atolls are these?
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They are listed, I believe, on the, well ...here named on the chart on
page 8 and 9.
Those are all the ones that were surveyed.
not deal with Enewetak and Bikini.
This report does
They’ve been separately reported in
other reports.
Buck:
All right another question.
Marshallese:
Why did you treat Enewetak and Bikini differently from the
ot~ers?
Q:
Enewetak and Bikini had been the subject of earlier surveys and there
were decisions that the Enewetak people had to make in 1979, before we had
this survey completed.
So we prepared a booklet, a separate booklet, for
Enewetak which was presented in 1979.
Similarity, the people of Bikini
asked us to make an earlier presentation
decisions about their future.
them.
to them when they had to make some
(and) So we produced a separate booklet for
Those are mentioned in the back last few pages of.”.. Bikini is
mentioned on page 61 and Enewetak on page 59.
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