ha ataOehehe)eo ree ag. Bataipetes FETtee he gorgenll Pow ag eeead wen Fea dt PoachLeell via groundwater and various food chains,” the study concluded. “It is clear... that residents in houses built within the interi- or of Bikini Island will receive 30-year external doses exceeding the guide value.” As word of medical and other test results filtcred back to Kili in various forms, disillusionment about the resettle- x ERDA doctors don’t examine the chil- ---dren of the exposed Utirik group and why ERDA doctors give different treat‘ment to the people of Utirik than the rae, said Oscar deBruin, Trust Territory admin- fee ‘» people of Rongelap. (‘They do not give ‘full examinations to the people of Utirik . every year as they do in Rongelap. Why ~ not?”) The letter raised other questions canned goods and rice, but, inevitably, some ate fresh pandanus and breadfruit. “] guess the temptation is too great.” a other outer islands of Micronesia, I fecl --~whom he/she is treated. It is easy for a .research program to neglect such patient's ‘proud of what we have done for them.” Dr. Bill Burr, deputy director of rights and feelings in the interest of the ERDA'’s Division of Biomedical and En~ outcome of a program... . The people on vironmental Research is more candid in ‘all the islands fee] that the program fails - to understand and accept their local trahis appraisal: ““Let’s face it, the US. goofditions and culture, They claim that things ed.” — R.K. . are done according to American standards rather than Marshallese. The problem .créates only another gap of understanding ‘between the (Brookhaven) doctors and — ‘the people” Last year, a letter signed by Joane} Peter and Aplos Alec, magistrate and iroij - of Utirik respectively, criticized ERDA’s medical program. The letter asked why Nh ret “right to decide how, when, where or by ERDAofficials defend the program and explain it has recently .been revised in an effort to better serve the needs of the Utirik people.’ Dr. Conard has said, “The treatment we have given these people is so far above what is given on the Be Sle ee a dt “Yet, even now the people feel an intense :*.awareness of being subjects of a research '. ~project rather than willing participants of ~. @ general health care program... What ‘eseems to be forgotten is the patient’s ‘ about the health care and concluded, ‘*As you can see, the people of Utirik are very + te * ment program increased. Bikini people ‘who had returned to their home atoll - began to move elsewhere, according to -Tomaki Juda, the magistrate. “There are about 60 -people on ‘Bikini now,” he said, not counting the Trust Territory workers. “There were *. about 86 a year or two ago but they have .been moving off the island because of the concern.” Residents on Bikini Island were advised to cat surplus government food, distressed and angry as a result of the ~radjation. The people feel that the ERDA programis in need of vast changes.” provisions,” said Joseph -E. Trimble, a ERDA’s medical program also came " under attack recently from the Nagasaki chapter of the Japan Congress Against Atomic and Hydrogen Bombs (Gensuikin). The group noted that, according to AEC treatment cards it had received, 66 Marshallese are suffering from bone marrow ailments “and it is feared that they will contract blood diseases.” The report, released by Japanese doctors in Nagasaki, noted the already-reported cases of leukemia and cancer of the generative organs and termed present health care “inadequate,” BreeEeeeeedlie rs oa istrator for the Marshalls. Bikini council members said their biggest problem has been thelack of solid information about the resettlement program. But ERDA officials said they need t more time to sort the information out ‘and then let the Bikini people decide how they want the resettlement to proceed. “We can't go and alarm them with sterile recommendations. We want to try to inform them and help them make reasonable choices,” said one official. The options being considered involve restricting movement to certain parts of the atolls or setting some foods aside. While ERDA officials are convinced both. Bikini and Enewetak atolis can be safely resettled, given certain limitations, other experts fear the penalty for restricted living on the islands may be too great. “Perhaps most alarming is the grim possibility that Bikinians, like Armerican ~ Indians, may become wards to the extent that livelihood and quality of life wili be totally derived from federal government scientist with. Battelle Human Affairs Research Center at a recent seminar on _forced migration. “Life is i starting allover?’ . _ The resettlement of the Enewetak people back from Ujelang, 124 miles -away, has more going in its favor. The Enewetak people are more cohesive than the people of Bikini. The returning contin- gent, which numbered 57 in June, stays ‘in radio contact with the 400 or so who a TbeaeINfatbitehitedsdteetyakiotae 5013194 remain on Ujclang and both groups are ” 21.