consummation of an agreement to provide for support of P.L. 5-52 under
the heading of research-related activities of the AEC, and also to provide

the payment of $18,212 in "inconvenience" money (increased from $16,000)
to the exposed and dislocated Utirikese, which was first offered by
the AEC in 1970.

It is the hope of the Committee that both of these arrangements will be
completed expeditiously--in any case, the Committee will continue to monitor the situation and will take such steps as it sees fit with regard
to this matter.

The Joint Committee wishes to draw the readers' attention to three documents:
1)

the appendix which contains a moving account by the columnist

Stewart Alsop of his meeting with ~

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in Bethesda, Maryland;

the appendix containing Senate Joint Resolution No. 36 which

expresses the sorrow and sympathy of the Congress of Micronesia at the

“untimely, unwarranted
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and irreplaceable loss" of

and

the appendix which contains the Committee's past recommendations

and what actions have been taken on them.

Lastly, the reader will note this report is considerably shorter than its
past report.

This is due to the fact that the area is somewhat less

complicated than the original report; that the 1973 report has provided
the basis for many of the conclusions reached in this report; and that
although there was considerable information which could have led to it
being considerably longer, this report has intentionally been made

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