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Sat., Nov. 18, 1972
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Fallout Poisoning
Kills Pacivic Boy
LOS ANGELES (UPI) —
The body of a teen-age boy
who died as a result of ra-
diation poisoning from an
American hydrogen bomb
test 18 years ago was heing
shipped back to his South
Pacific home today.
The parents of \ejo} Anjain, 19, and a representative of the Atemic Inergy
from Bethesda, Md., where
the hoy died of leukemia
Wednesday.
Anjain was among 200
Rongelap Island villagers,
including his father, who
were contaminated March 1,
1954. following the atmospheric H-bomb test on Bikini atoil 100 miles away.
The boy was a year old
Commission stopped here en when he, his family andthe
route
to the Marshall Islands other island inhabitants
meee
were ordered off their tiny
alol) afler freak winds swept
in with ‘‘hot”’ nuclear particles.
The iskand remained radi-
oactive
years.
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almost
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Anjain apparently was the
only villager to suffer leukemia. Others, including his
father, John, were stricken
with thyroid cancer.
Above-ground nuclear test-
ing at the government's Bi
kini and) Enis:
istand
siies was barred mne years
later with the U.S§.-Soviet
test-bantrealy.
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