WEAPONS ‘964 -onrtinued the missile range is the Army Z3allistic Missiie Defense program, which tests, among others, the Minutemen, Titan, Polaris, Sprint, Spartan, Nike and Zeus missiles. The range also supports Air Force and Navy testing of ICBM's, Inter- . : . . i: i : a a : : iu i Cans so no oO a nO a sODS a OO a Oo OO OOH jj PRaa Saaswwe of Eniwetak (not to be confused with Enewetak Atoll), Omelek, Gellinam and Legan. On Ennylabegan, additional telemetry equipment is installed and live ing quarters built. mediate Range Balliscic Missiles, and Sea Launched Ballistic Missiles. Rongelap: The Rongelap peoples' body JULY 1 Kwajalein: Command of Kwajalein taminated islands, have remained at the same level since then, according to Brookhaven's 12 year report. is transferred from the Navy to the Army, and the missile range is renamed "Kwajalein Test Site." At this time the range consists of facilities on five islands: Kwajalein, Roi-Namur, Eniwetak, Sugeegue and Ennylabegan. 1966 JANUARY Rongelap: The U.S.Con- KWajalein: A new ‘impact area’ for in- coming Inter-Continentai Ballistic MisThe central :wosiles is established. thirds of the lagoon, called the ‘MidCorridor,’ is designated as the new target area because it is surrounded 5v islands with nissile tracking and tes¢t- lagoon that bound are islands, The 47 ing devices. nabited, in manv ia- this part of the the hazarcous zone. new target area provides a reccveryv levels of radiation, which jumped in 1958 after living one year on their con- The gress approves an ex-gratia payment of $950,000 (approximately $11,000 per canita) to the exposed Rongelap people “or injuries resulting from their ex- posure in 1954. JUNE Rongelap: Of the 29 children who< were under 10 years old in 1954 (including « in utero during the fallouc) 15, or 52% have developed thyroid abnormalrties, wes SEPTEMBER “waialein: President Lyndon Rongelap: A Bookhaven medical report shows little difference in radioacrivitv levels between those exposed in 1954, and those who had not been chere in 1954, but moved back after 1957. Satellites, Moreover, = from enemy catrols. DaSin tretected somnson anncunces the U.S. has an operational svstem for shooting cown Sovierc ceveloped from tests called “Prozect -3°" begun in May 1263 at Xwa- Salein. the body levels of radioacti- vity of these previously unexposed Rongelapese was 10 times greater than that of Marshallese living on Kili Island in the southern Marshalls. 1965 FEBRUARY Enewetak: The Air “One of the things that has bothered us over the years is the fact that the AEC doctors have Force assumes control of the missile range at fnewetak Atoll. Kwajalein: To gather information on the never bothered to explain our problems to us--instead they treat uS aS if we were merely children and we resent that." Jirda Biton, Utirik Atoll. bOZ10 0S atmosphere re-entry of missiles fired from VandenSerg Air Force Base, a va~ riety of instrumentation and tracking facilities and helicopter landing pads are built oa the Mid-Corridor islands 1965 JULY The Congress of Micronesia, a territory-wide legislative body mod- eled on the U. S. Congress, holds its first session after being created by an executive order of President Lyndon Johnson in 1964. (continued on page 20) Laem mneneeneeeeoenes 8B esunagnaee