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10 May 67
ADMINISTRATION
P.L. 90-16 appropriates $25 million for 1967 and $35 million each for 1968
and 1969 "for the continuance of civil government for the T.T. ... and for other
purposes."'”
21 Aug 67
CONGRESSIONAL RESPONSIBILITY
President Johnson submits a proposed joint resolution to Congress for the
creation of a commission on the status of the T.T. to develop recommendations to
establish self-government in Micronesia."
20 Oct 67
RELOCATION
Approximately 300 Enewetak
people on Ujelang board a T.T. supply ship and
demand to be moved to Majuro. they are angered
the lack of food and poor
conditions on Ujelang.’”’
28 Feb 68
RADIATION
RELOCATION
Officials from the DOI, the National Security Council, the DOD, the DBM and
the division of operational safety (DOS) of the AEC, and the T.T. conclude that
resettlement of Bikini Atoll would soon result in external exposure levels
approximately double that of the "average U. S. population,” but similar to that of the
residents of the Colorado Plateau. Burying or plowing the soil, however, while
"presumably" reducing this exposure to "near average levels," would also reduce the
island’s fertility. In addition, consumption of local produce would yield cesium'”
burdens 20 to 50 times that in the U. S. during the 1963-1964 fallout period, but
these levels could be reduced to those “deemed acceptable ... in recent years" by
limiting local food sources and providing substitutes.'”
March 68
CONTRACTOR
MEDICAL.
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Conard’‘disédvers ‘two morechildten with thyroid nodules and decides to
bring four more people to BNL. Three of these four have not responded to hormone
therapy and the fourth is a 29-year-old woman with an “unidentified tumor in the
neck lateral to the gland.""*
14 March 68
AGREEMENT
Representatives of the Enewetak people and the T.T. high commissioner
amend the 19 November 1956 agreement concerning the "use of Enewetak Atoll" to
give the high commissioner more discretion in how trust funds are invested.'*
13 May 68
RADIATION
RELOCATION
For the Bikini cleanup Martin B. Biles, director of the AEC/DOS, recommends
the removal of contaminated scrap metal from Bikini to make the radioactive scrap
tues
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unavailable to native collectors.'*