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Majuro, Marshall Islands, May 29 (AP) = Two Marshallese school
teachers were the chief drafters of a petition to the UN complaining
about hydrogen bomb experiments in their homeland.

The pair, Dwight

Heine and Atlan Anien, emphatically deny any American kmowingly assisted

them.

"Some did help but they did not kmow it," Heine said in en inter-

view.

"We asked many questions of Americans.

We asked who one would

write to and how it would be addressed but we did not tell them what we
were going to do.

We also read UN pamphlets and saw how petitions appear-

ing in them were worded."

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Heine said two Americans saw an early draft

of the petition but it carried no heading.

He said one, Keith Smith,

American manager for Marshallese Trading Company, said "Who wrote it?

It is beautifully written."
continued.

"It taxed me and Atlan to write it," Heine

"We worked every day for nearly a month.

other Marshallese and put dowm their ideas.
draft.

Then we would make a rough

"I thought we had too many dangers in it.

the dictionary and decided on lethal.

a substitute for prevent."
then most Marshallese.

We would meet with

So I looked through

I also found word circumvent as

Heine, whose grandfather was German, is bisger

He is 35 years old, has dark skin and bushy heir.

He is superintendent of the Marshall Island schools.
Heine probably is one of the best educated Marshallese.

spokesman between the people and Americans.

He is the

Heine started school in 1928

at the Protestant Jesuit Mission School. In 1936 he went to a mission
junior high at Kusaie.

When the Americans moved into the Marshalls during

World War II he worked for the U.S. Navy as a guide and interpreter.
Between 1948 and 1950 he attended the University of Hawaii in Honolulu.
Last year he travelled for 3 months in New Zealand, Samoa and Fiji on a
UNESCO fellowship.

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Keine has a sense of humor end timing.

He told this

story of an Americansanecoman who visited Majuro and spoke to the people.

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