Trip Report -15- water was fairly choppy and the challenge was almost immediate to move four very old and crippled patients. Lots of TLC did the trick. We were all delighted that the whaler/raft is working as well as it is. Otterman gave a walkie-talkie to the Magistrate which he used frequently and was a help to all of us. The whole team was working hard and well and by the end of the second day we had 60 persons on board out of the 87 on Brookhaven's list. The members of the BNL team had a great deal of love and respect for the people they had come to know over the past 20 same years and it is a big plus to the program. On Wednesday evening the first major crisis hit. Otterman said he was definitely leaving for Kwajalein after Rongelap. I said I wanted to call Bill Stanley at 9am the next day, and that I wasn't interested in his crying "Wolf". I demanded a firm go or no go decision from him. I met with him at 8:00a next morning and he said he would do what I wanted and stay although he personally felt like leaving. He and his crew continued to create good will with the islanders. He sent his people to look at the old AEC generator on the beach with the thought that if DOE had no further use for it it might be turned over to the islanders who have people who are capable of running and maintaining it. When we met with the Magistrate's very old and crippled father all the old man asked for was cookies, Otterman had his cook make up a large batch and we personally delivered to the old man later that night. Also John Kocian had been taking and developing magnificient Pictures and giving them out to people. That morning we took the Magistrate's 75 year old crippled father out of the house on a chair litter carried by Otterman and myself with four others guarding for slips. We had him tied in the chair with strips of bed sheets and we got him on the whaler and lifted him up over the side of the ship where he was examined, After visiting him I questioned the necessity of having to subject him to all this when all but the x-ray could have easily been done on shore. Dr. Pratt said that it was needed in case the mar died and had a claim against the Government. The logistics of ship to shore continued to work beautifully. If need be we lifted the women right out of the whaler and carried them half way up the beach, This was always accompanied by lots of laughter and many Komol Tatas. Everybody seemed to be getting along better, but there was still a bare minimum of communications from Dr. Pratt. On Thursday Dr. Pratt said that he wanted to examine about 10-12 patients by noon and then reserve the afternoon so that the medical team could CI C54 cn go fishing and snorkeling. We had examined about 98% of those that