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I'm sorry I was not at home when you visited my
island, Instead, I have spent the past few months
travelling to Japan and Fiji learning about treat~
ment of atomic pomb victims and about attempts to
end the nuclear threat in the Pacific.
Since leaving Rongelap on the peace ship Fri, I
have leamed a great.deal and am writing to you to
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clarify some of my feelings regarding your continued Rangelap and uncle of
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full-tire doctor stationed on Rongelap.
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indicates the case would be, then the
AEC will probably not kick in any money
for this service~-or at least this sas
the icpression given shen the subject
vas discussed in Eajuro with doctors
involved in a non-tadiation related
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study of diabetes among the Utirik—-Rang-
elap people.
I realize now that your entire career is based on
our illness, We are far more valuable to you than
you are tous, You have never really cared about
us as people --only as a group of guinea pigs for
your government's bomb research effort,
you work for who mu
As a result of my tr.
that I want you to k:
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For me and
for the other people on Rongelap, it is life which
matters most, For you it ts facts and figures. There
[On Saturday, April 19, tn
is no question about your technical competence, but —._,
had a meeting
we often wonder about your humanity,
We don't
t{thoabout!20 people fron Utirtk
is that we do not wo. .
medical care from d«
about collecting infc .
ment's war makers,
We wanta doctc. °:
need you and your technological machinery. We
on the question of continued AEC ently. We don't nec-
In all the yeors you've come to ourisland,
to Nelson, everyone at the meete see a doctor when wing has agreed with his position trying to Americani.
want our life and our health. We want to be free,
you've never treated us (as) people. You've never
sat down among us and really help us honestly about
(This letter was sent to Or Robert Conard, head of the continuing
yearly examinations. Accord Ing
convenient for you t+
not to permit the:AEC to examine cast-off textbaoks,
the kind of medical .
the people anyzorel .
;
We've never rec.
to invite doctors fror
amine us in a caring ©
radiolocical effect survey on the people of Rongelap andUtirik
who were exposed to radiation in an incident in 1954]
We no longer we.
trol. As a represent:
_ vinced us that Amer:
~~ 460 to help them,
fr
our neutrality and ir.
power,
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There will be sc -
1 you tryto visit be pr
we first stood up to y
motives.
Now that:
people in the world :
no longer went you
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