PAGE 3 RUWMFGAO0019 . CLAS CEREMONIAL OPENING REMARKS BY DISTAD DEBRUM AND CHAIRMAN MURRAY, ALLEN SAT IN THE FRONT OF THE MEETING HOUSE IN THE GUEST SECTION AND PROCEEDED NOISILY TO EAT THE MEAL BE HAD EARLIER BEEN OFFERED. MEN, WOMEN AND THE SMALLEST CHILDREN SAT POLITE AND ATTENTIVE THROUGH DEBRUM‘S WELCOME AND AMBASSADOR MURRAY’S RESPONSE; ALL THE WHILE OBSERVING ALLEN ATTACKING A LOBSTER WITH HIS BARE HANDS, OSCAR, ALWAYS A GENTLEMAN, WAS EMBARRASSED, RE HAD HAD ENOUGH, AND HE ASKED ALLEN TO LEAVE THE MEETING HOUSE. ALLEN DID, RETURNING AFTER HE HAD FINISHED EATING. 6, EXPRESSIONS BY THE COMMUNITY TO THE UN MISSION DEALT ALMOST ENTIRELY WITH MATTERS WHICH ARE TRUST TERRITORY RESPONSIBILITY AND WILL NOT BE REPORTED HERE. TWO OTHER SIGNIFICANT POINTS WERE RAISED, HOWEVER. THE FIRST WAS A DEMAND THAT THE SUNKEN SHIPS AT BIKINI BE REMOVED WITH SALVAGE PROCEEDS TO GO TO THE BIKINIANS TOGETHER WITH COMPENSATION FOR THE ASSUMED DAMAGE THE SHIPS HAVE CAUSED, THE SECOND SIGNIFICANT EXCHANGE STARTED WITH A QUESTION FROM HENCHI BALOS, HENCHI 18 YOUNG, WELL EDUCATED AND ARTICULATE. HE WAS MOST VOCAL IN OUR SEPTEMBER CONFRONTATION AT KILI; HE THEN CALLED DR. CONARD A LIAR. HE CLAIMED IN THIS MEETING THAT AT KILI IN SEP, WE HAD PROMISED A FULL AND FINAL REPORT ON THE JUNE SURVEY IN TWO MONTHS... AND NOW, SEVEN MONTHS LATER WE PAGE 4 RUWMFGA0019 UNCLAS STILL DO NOT HAVE IT, THE CHAIRMAN ASKED IF ANYONE COULD RESPOND, AND I DID, INFORMING HIM THAT WE HAVE BEEN REPORTING RESULTS PIECEMEAL AS THEY BECOME AVAILABLE, THAT LABORATORY ANALYSIS AND EVALUATION ARE CONTINUING AND MIGHT BE COMPLETE IN THE NEXT TWO TO THREE MONTHS. BALOS ASKED IF I WOULD PROMISE A FINAL REPORT IN TWO MONTHS AND I REPLIED THAT I MOST CERTAINLY WOULD NOT, WHEREUPON HE ADDRESSED HIMSELF TO THE CHAIRMAN, SAYING IF WE DO NOT HAVE THAT REPORT IN TWO OR THREE MONTHS, I THINK WE SHOULD SELL BIKINI TO THE RUSSIANS OR THE CHINESE OR JAPANESE SO THAT WE WOULD HAVE MONEY TO FIND A SAFE PLACE TO LIVE, 7. I THINK THE MISSION (AND PERHAPS MOST OF THE BIKINI PEOPLE) RECOGNIZED THIS AS RHETORIC AND SAW BALOS AS A SURROGATE FOR GEORGE ALLEN. THEY HAVE BEEN ALMOST INSEPARABLE FOR THE PAST COUPLE OF DAYS. THE CHAIRMAN WAS LATER TOLD BY TONY DEBRUM THAT NO REPORT IN TWO MONTHS PROMISE WAS MADE AT KILI. HE SEEMED SATISFIED. HOWEVER, THIS EPISODE WITH HENCHI BALOS LEADS ME TO CONCLUDE THAT ACCOMPANYING THIS PARTICULAR GROUP TO KILI AT THIS TIME WOULD BE UNWISE. ALLEN HAS REPEATEDLY TRIED TO DRAW ME INTO DISCUSSION OF BIKINI ISSUES, AND I HAVE STEADFASTLY REFUSED, BUT BY USING HENCHI, DURING THE MISSION’S VISIT, HE CAN PUT ME ON THE SPOT. AT MY REQUEST, AND WITH THE ADVICE OF DISTRICT ATTORNEY EARWICKER, DEBRUM HAS RELEASED ME FROM THE EARLIER REQUEST THAT I GO TO KILI. PAGE 5 RUWMFGA0019 UNCLAS 8. WE RETURNED TO KWAJ, WITHOUT INCIDENT, AT 7:00 P.M. TUESDAY. BT #0019