to examine and treat the exposed people. The team arrived unennounced at Majuro on December 8, 1971 and declared they were ready to begin examining the exposed Marshallese. Since only two of the 10 were physicians, the rest being newspaper men or persons associated with political parties, the TTPI decided to intervene. The Attorney General of the TIPI ruled that since the Japanese team had entered the Trust Territory on visitor visas they would have to conduct themselves 4s visitors. They left 9 days later after having superficially examined eignt exposed Marshallese who chanced to be on Majuro. One of the physicians, Dr. Yoshima Hondo, is not well known in medical circles in Japan, but is an activist. The other, Dr. Haruo Ezaki is a clinical professor in the School of Medicine, Hiroshima University, and a consultant on thyroid disease to the Atomic Bomb Casualty Commission {AKCC). He has recently been offered the Chair of Surgery at 'iroshima University. He returned to Japan 2 days before the rest of the team exited. This treatment of the Japanese team led to many newspaper edito~ rials, speeches, and legal maneuvers developing the theme that the Trust Territory Government must be trying to suppress something; that this was an undemocratic action. In a speech made in connection with introduction of a Bill into the Micronesian Congress on January 27, 1972, Congressman Balos stated that the TTPI has been unresponsive to Department of Energy Historian’s Office ARCHIVES