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the
newly-expanaued
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contro] of the atomic,

cr rev, he said. However, its;
v.-Haation fs rattner remote at;
stage cors ering the past;

vitude of the USSR.
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In a ritshell, the current!
izsue should be bolled down:

only to the scope of the fish-:
ing industry, The Government.

, Will handle the current inci-!
‘dent purely as a fishing issue,‘

Okazaki added.

United Press
PEARL HARBOR,

Hawaii,

Mar. 25.—Persons known to
have been eceidentallty exposed’

‘to atomic radiation in the masKatsuo

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As to the purchase of the,
ntaminaied Fukuryu Maru,’
,the Foreign Minister said that}

“no concrete decision has been!
mede ‘so far, although thej
Liberal Party proposed Governrsent purchase of the boat.
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The Government will see to

it that the atomic-dusted boat

will not pess into.
a third country, he added,

‘sive March 1 Bikini hydregen’
sprosion totalled at least 379

today, w:tn possibly others sul,
to be discovered.
A Navy announcement aie?
closed -tiat the U.S. tanker’
Pataisco with $6 men and sx’

,oficers avzard had been con-,
taminated by radicactive “fall-!

outs” of ashes from the Biking
blast.

The announcement said the

men aboard the Patapsco were
not dargerously exposed, but
they were
orly
the lates?

known to have been affected
Ly the unexpectedly massive!

blast whose “hot” ashes were
said to have fallen 1,200 miles)

away.

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