Ms. Ruth VanCleve

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December 17,

1980

to radiation as a result of the nuclear testing program - a

coverage which would include essentially all inhabitants of the

world ~ any expansion of coverage of Public Law 96-205 to include
the whole of the Marshall Islands, based upon the theory that they
were exposed to radiation,
sanction.

should receive explicit Congressional

Sincerely,

Pl Lhng

PATRICIA A.

KING

Deputy Assistant

(Cup Division
:
ANGUS
Depu

/MACBETH

Attorney General

Fa

Liahe ére.

Assistant Attorney General

Land and Natural Resources Division
cc:

Wallace Green

Deputy Under Secretary for

Territorial and International
Affairs

Department of the Interior

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