REPOSITORY COLLECTION DoE/PAse Doe(wy / BOX No. Laan” exog #3" FOLDER Of THEY (2L L424 OS aS B/o- MED, DR. COnKAD Sat., Nov. 18, 1972 K. Honolulu Star-Bulletin ’ 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. BEST COPY AVAILABLE for almost four 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. eae