possible we would like not to be in the position of telling people what they must or should do but rather of informing them of the degree of risk and permitting them to accept risk if that is their choice and to control their own lives rather than asking us to control them. we are saying it is different. So, perhaps the way It is very easy to say that we can avoid excess radiation exposure at Rongelap by not eating coconut crabs, at all, because there aren't many on the southern islands and they are on the northern islands. We would choose not to do that but certainly if the council, the people at Rongelap, should want to make that decision it is much more, they have a much greater right to do that than we do. deBrum (in English): I was taken by your explanation that ... I didn't pay any attention... Let me try it the best way I can. (Oscar translated the above into Marshallese) Marshallese: I think I detect one of the reasons these kind of questions are coming up, is that the people have their own council and also some other sources of scientific data or doctors that come to check them and sometimes that they have asked well what were you told by the DOE people and then they say, well that's inaccurate or that's certainly not so, they are misleading you or deceiving you. puzzled. And so, that is why we are really This makes for a lot of misunderstanding, so it is difficult now for us to really know what to do when we get that kind of information from different sources, so, I think that is one of the reasons why we are having these questions. Ray: Well, if that's the case it seems to me that this is a very wholesome exchange and that we should and do encourage a discussion with those advisors, those council members, those experts. And, we have freely made available to any legitimate representatives or advisors of the people, all of the information that we have. We welcome their advice and you know in the case of the Bikini people we cooperated extensively with the counselors and advisors that they retained. And we stand, certainly, willing and ready, and these documents are available, as I said earlier this morning, pow ARCHIVES 50