1965 - 1968
1969
Thyroid surgery on 12 Rongelap people carried out in
Boston.
Cleanup of Bikini for return of inhabitants.
Five Marshallese had thyroid surgery in U. S.
1970
One Marshallese had thyroid surgery in Cleveland.
1971
Marshallese Congressman (Congress of Micronesia) visits Japan
and invites a Japanese team to visit Rongelap.
Team arrives
but because of conflict over credentials they are denied visas
and returned to Japan.
Return of two Bikini families to Bikini to-live. BNL medical
team assumes responsibility for radiological monitoring of returning Bikini and Eniwetok people.
Documentary movie Thyroid Neoplasia as a Late Sequella of
Radioactive Fallout filmed in Marshall Islands.
medical team in action.
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and adequate treatment. In March he told the Rongelap and
Utirik people not to cooperate with the medical team. Annual
medical survey not completed. Also 4 patients who had been
operated for thyroid cancer and were to be reexamined at
Tripler Army Hospital were stopped and told to return home.
April: Congress of Micronesia establishes a Special Joint
Committee concerning the medical examinations at Rongelap and
Utirik atolls.
August:
Chairman:
Senator Olympio T. Borja.
Resident physician stationed in Marshall Islands.
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