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Rehabilitation and Clean-Up of Eniwetok Atoll and Its
Return to the Trust Territory Administration
Opening Remarks - Mr. Carpenter, Department of the Interior
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When we started organizing this meeting we had no idea it would turn
out as large as it has, But we are pleased to have all of the various
agencies and sub-agencies represented on this problem. I think in view
of the size of the group we would like to make it primarily an information
exchange meeting but, hopefully, end up with some tentative’ conclusions.
We have a little agenda before you which we will try to follow, but this
is only a broad framework to keep the meeting on the track.
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Let me say that we do have a secretary taking notes and a tape going
here which won't pick up the whole table but, between the two, wé hope
to have some kind of a fairly specific memorandum of the meeting itself -a copy of which we will make available to all those represented here.
I would like to
we have been deeply
past three years or
of the last meeting
We now have another
say just a few words at the beginning. First of all,
involved in negotiating with the Micronesians for the
so on their future political status; and, as the result
here in July, we arrived at a tentative partial compact.
meeting slated for late September in Hawaii, at which
time we are hopeful that we can end up with at least a tentative agreed
complete compact.
Having said that, however, we realize we are in a somewhat critical
stage in our negotiations, Therehas just concluded a recent special
sesssion of the Congress of Micronesia before whichthe partial compact
was placed; and at the Congress there have been some rather pgeneral expressions of unhappiness in terms of the compact as thus far negotiated.
I say a somewhat critical stage becaugeFrom how Sn, seven more so than
before, everything we do in Micronesia and at times things we don't do
will be the subject of unfavorable comment, criticism, etc, Many of .
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