Trip Report -2- with Bill Stanley and Roger Ray it was recommended we take Reynold DeBrum, a Marshallese, as our pilot and DOE translater because of the fact that we are no longer using dedicated Global personnel, costs, Mr. DeBrum's language ability, and our wish to involve more Marshallese with the program, Dr. Pratt really got upset at this point, and said that he was tired of Roger Ray butting in his business and this would all be settled at the Washington level. I reiterated the budgetary problems and told Dr. Pratt that if LaPointe went as part of the medical team it would have to be under a separate arrangement between Brookhaven, Global /KMR. He also told me he was going to fire Dr. Grant, but wanted to take him on this mission to be there if problems arose over the baby's death. Dr. Pratt also told me that the Ebeye people were very upset over the per diem problems and that he had set up a meeting for me with them on Ebeye on Monday night. He expressed pessimism throughout the conversation on U.S. Oceanography's being able to fully support him without Paul LaPointe. It was obvious that Dr. Pratt and Chuck Otterman had some communications problems and Dr, Pratt became terse with Mr. Otterman and spoke to him only when absolutely necessary. On Saturday, the 27th, Otterman and I took a whaler out to meet the Liktanur II which docked at 8:15am. Global had no shoreside power ready and obviously there was very little effort by KMR/Global to ready the dock space. Mr, Otterman and I met with Global's Marine Department personnel and got satisfactory berthing but no power hookup until the following Monday. Saturday was spent helping with the ship's offloading so that we could get the mission started as early as possible. On Sunday I met with Dr. Pratt at breakfast in the messhall. He was very bitter and said: 1) That there was an undercurrent throughout the whole island against Otterman, 2) He resented Otterman's attitude that he can buy people with beer and dollars, 3) Global was prepared to do nothing for Otterman, 4) He resented the fact that Otterman asked that none of the medical team visit the boat on its day of arrival, Saturday. a fe cr a mrt asi I tried to explain to Dr. Pratt that Otterman did not want anyone on the ship on Saturday because the crew was tired, the ship was jammed with equipment, and they were working hard to unload everything that first day. This didn't seem to make an impression on him.