day medical care and treatment provided by the Medical Service of the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands (TTPI). They do not distin- guish between the annual diagnostic-epidemiologic purposes of the Medical Survey team and the TTPI medical support which is limited by unusually severe logistic problems. This and other complaints (see below) should be viewed in the context of the uncertain political situetion presently existing in the Trust Territory. It is the policy of the U.S. Government to essist the Micronesians in developing a democratic self-government. A two-house Congressional system has been operative since 1964 and beginning in October 199 there have been six rounds of talks aiming at further political autonomy vis-a-vis the United States. The people of the Trust Territory have aligned themselves into six island (atoll) groups and are competing for leadership. The Marshall Island group believes it has extra- ordinary claims on the United States because only they have suffered the dislocations due to tests and other military purposes. In August 1971, Mr. Ataji Balos, Representative of the Marshall Islands to the Micronesian Congress, went to Hiroshima, Japan, to attend the Anti A-and H-Bomb Ceremonies on August 6 to 10. Acting apparently as a Congressman in behalf of his Marshallese constituents, he invited the Gensuiken, the radical left Socialist party, to send a team of physicians expert in radiation effects to the Marshall Islands of Energy Department Office Historian’s ARCHIVES