Fes ase Beeeee WEAPONSTESTING Se SSR 1980 continued faith in these (DOE) physicians...I am also impressed with the failure of the physicians to communicate findings and prognosis to the people...These basic tights of a patient have been in a large part ignored...I found very few Marshallese who were acquainted with the nature of their pathology. I reject firmly the thought that the people were too primitive or uneducated to absorb such information, since I have found this not to be crue." OCTOBER U.S.: Scientists with the U.S. Center for Disease Control report that the number of leukemias found in ser- vicemen exposed to the "Smoky" nuclear test in 1957 is almost three times the expected rate. PACE HEARING ON UJELANG ~ 1973 Seven PACE military and civilian personnel, Trust Territory officials, interpreters, hearing officers, reporters and others arrived by ship at Ujelang to find the community well Prepared for their visit. People come wut in small boats wearing cardboard signs saying “ENANA PACE" (PACE IS BAD). The Americans go through a welcoming arch to shake hands with the entire community, many of whom are wearing “ENANA PACE” signs. PACE officials did not take the prospect of opposition seriously. “Local opposition is a fact of life in so many military projects," comments one PACE representative. The Americans spend a day anda half presenting slide shows, films «.. "For me and the other people on Rongelap, :t is life which matters most. for you it is facts and fig- ures. we want our life and our health. In all the years you've come to cur Island, you've never once treated us as people. You've never saz sown among us and really helped zs honestly about our prob-ems. You have told people that the ‘worst :s over,' then Lekoj Anjain cied. I am very worried chat we will suffer again and again." Nelson Anjain, Magistrate of Ronyveiap in a 1975 letter to Or. Robert Conard, Brookhaven National Laboratory. 1221006 DECEMBER Northern Marshalls: Loma Linda University completes a study for the Interior Department on the pronosed medical program according to PL 96-205. At an Interior Department-sponsored meeting in kKashington, D.C., spokespeople for the Marshall Islands Govern- ment state their "most strenuous exception cto the statement in...the Loma Linda report that ‘there are minimal radiation related health effects evident in the Marshalls.' The statement in the report apparently was based entirely on a cursory review of incomplete medical records, brief interviews with a linit- SRE SBS eee 30 and photographs of proposed PACE high explosive tests. They argue that "the tests would help to pro- tect the free world and were thus in the interest of all present." The Enewetak magistrate responds to PACE officials: “My people and I ...do not like PACE; we do not want PACE to continue; and we want you to take this message to your people.” The magistrate said if PACE is as safe for the atoll as the Americans say it is, President Nixon and High Commissioner Johnston should be told this and the PACE tests could take Place near the White House and the Commissioner's residence. During occasional pauses in the magistrate's speech, the people respond in unison with a resounding “PACE is BAD.” Other members of the community speak, questioning the morality of PACE and suggesting that if the Americans went ahead they would Sail to Enewetak to be killed in the explosions. At the end, the magistrate thanked the Americans for coming, and presented gifts of handicrafts to them; the people sang three songs, one "Oh, how I iove my atoll" in a very emotional concluSion. The Americans were taken aback, one commenting, “What the hell is going on here?" (continued on page 32) BeBe Ree eee