FIFTH CONGRESS OF MICRONESIA
FIRST REGULAR SESSION, 1973
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SENATE JOINT RESOLUTION NO. 36
A SENATE JOINT RESOLUTION
Expressing the sorrow and sympathy of the Congress of Micronesia to the
family and friends of Lekoj Anjain for his untimely and unwarranted and
irreplaceable loss.
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States of America detonated a thermonuclear device, code-named Bravo,
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on Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands District; and
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WHEREAS, this 15-megaton weapon of war caused an unprecedented
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radioactive fallout over 7,000 square miles of the Pacific, showering
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dangerous radioactive particles on the inhabited atolls of Ailinginae
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Rongelap, Rongerik, and Utirik; and
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WHEREAS, on the island of Rongelap at that time were 64 human
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beings, including then Magistrate John Anjain and his one year old
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male baby named Lekoj; and
WHEREAS, since that time numerous cases of radiation-induced
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growth retardation and thyroid disorders have been diagnosed and
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=treated as a result of annual surveys by a medical team under contract
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to the United States Atomic Energy Commission; and
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WHEREAS, on March 1, 1954, Joint Task Force Seven of the United
WHEREAS, this same medical team last September upon examining
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Lekoj Anjain found indications of a serious blood disorder and took
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him to the United States for further examination; and
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WHEREAS, Lekoj Anjain, nineteen years old, died on November 15,
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1972, of pneumonia while undergoing treatment for acute myelogenous
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leukemia at a hospital in the National Institute
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Bethesda, Maryland; now, therefore,
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of Health at
BE IT RESOLVED by the Senate of the Fifth Congress of Micronesia,
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