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FROM:
ROGER RAY, C/O DISTAD, MAJURO, MARSHALL ISLANDS
TO:
USERDA, DR. JAMES LIVERMAN, WASH, DC
INFO:
USERDA, M. E. GATES, LAS VEGAS, NEVADA
UNC LASS.
SECOND MAJURO REPORT
ABOUT SIX HOURS CONVERSATION WITH MLSC ATTORNEY ALLEN
LEAVES ME WITH SOME APPREHENSION ABOUT A KILI TRIP, BUT
DETERMINED TO GO AHEAD,
ALLEN, DESCRIBING HIMSELF AS A
HEAVYWEIGHT TRIAL LAWYER, IS FIRMLY CONVINCED THAT LITIGATION WITH ERDA (OR SOME U. S. GOVT AGENCY) IS INEVITABLE.
HE SEES HIS FIRST TASK AS ESTABLISHING HIMSELF WITH HIS
CLIENTS AS THEIR ADVOCATE AND OUR ADVERSARY.
HIS PLAN SEEMS TO HAVE BEEN TO DISSOCIATE HIMSELF FROM US
ON THE KILI TRIP, CLAIM CREDIT FOR FORCING US TO BE KERE,
AND THEN CHALLENGE US PUBLICLY ON TECHNICAL ADEQUACY,
INTENTIONS, TIMELINESS AND THE LIKE.
BE CONGRESSMAN ATAJI BALOS.
HIS ALLY IN THIS WOULD
ALLEN ALSO SUGGESTED THAT ERDA
SHOULD BE FUNDING HIS TRAVEL.
IHAVE TOLD ALLEN
THAT WE HAVE NO INTENTION OF PARTICIPATING
IN A PUBLIC CONFRONTATION WITH HIM.
IF HE HAS QUESTIONS FOR US
WE WILL ANSWER THEM TO THE BEST OF OUR ABILITY AND WILL REFER
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