PRIVACY ACT MATERIAL REMOVED those questions. They asked us what animals, what animal life do you have on your island and we answered that we have pigs, chickens, cats, rats and dogs. We fed them, we gave them food to eat while they were with us of our diet and then they left. And so I am not a doctor and I sure don't know the answer to this, but how can you accept their data and use it as part, of say, your survey or anything if that is all they did while they were with us. Ray: I believe that was the year after the Wheeling. Is that right? after the Wheeling was there that the Loma Linda group visited. Soon Their purpose, that Loma Linda group, was to do a study to advise the Department : of the Interior in their health planning program. To plan health planning, what changes in health care might be needed and should be adopted in the Marshalls. studies. They were not there to examine people or to do any radiation They are not radiation specialists at all. They were looking at the conditions under which health care is delivered in the outer islands in order that they might help the Department of Interior with plans for future health care. Ray: Their studies were entirely separate from ours and we do not depend on anything that they learned as a part of this study. Marshallese: Okay with that answer, then I do have one more question. Did I hear accurately that there was a part of the Loma Linda research used in anyway in this report? Ray: No. In no way. Marshallese: It seems like I heard one of the other men refer to the Loma Linda people when they were talking just a few minutes ago about comparing Mejit and Utrik. (Ray to Robison: You did mention some other people, agus et PRIVACYACT MATERIAL REMOVED 18