MO 7 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 COPY OF TWX REPOSITORY o, SO couccnon DOL BOX Ne. fea 1KIW) ~ ANSE CORRSfer — Fo.pen fs, ~Z. [