POE/,PASO 7 REPOSITORY COLLECTION BOX No. FOLDER BEST COPY AVAILABLE Doe/,MV a i" E@OA LAA GF “ | | Of Fa 12£12 F3 — Upton, N.Y. 11973 J D1o- mE BR Conmeo Robert A. Conard, 4.D. Medical Dept., BNL ! 402115 — 12/20/73 | Dear Bob, Tore is hopefully in Honolulu by now, and we are looking forward to seeing him tomorrow, Thank you for all your help in arranging hia trip. We are still sitting on our luggage waiting f er the Militobi to take us’ to Rongelap. For a while we were concerned that we should not be back to f receive Tore, and we made arrangements for hia support and welfare. Then a we vere worried we vould have to leave just as he arrived or shortly beform . Thanks to the marvels of sarshallese shipping we shall probably have A both Christmas and New Years together. oS | and ve shrivelded up like peeled oranges. I thought we should have to } last veekend we fimally You may jump the next paragraphs. I am not filing complaints, and you know already about this wretched system. But I have sed Liv to have one. of our trips on record while it is fresh in the memory. Although the details 4 UH] differ it may serve as a prototype. UWlie The ship arrived 12,93; but it was Friday, money, #0 although we loeded Staurday as ‘ ce ao Kitco had not arranged for _ od, we. vere sitting on oS board till Monday waiting for a bank to opgn before ve sailed. Well, Liv and I went home of course when ve finally/learned about the delay. Other passengers were not quite that lucky. 22/23 at 3 pm aliled. In the meantime our schedile vas changed. The agreement was thet, they should ship me to Rongelap on the homeward trip from Utirik, but Mijlitobi is not able to stay avay from home base that long (see below), so tlie captain told me he would return to Ewajalein and then go to Rongelap, Cansequently we left our equipment for Rongelap behind; I saw no point in |having it tossed around for 10 days emid copra bags and buga. ror effect when the outlook was at its grimmest. recovered. Jon Schaefer took me out for a diver's chech-out and he found a golden cowrle. Sometimes charity is justly rewarded. tgp TD Cnt 5 eM be admitted for parenteral fluids but fortunately the tetracycline took ame ao I was so disgusted when ve arrived from our last trip I decided to sool off vefore I trote you. Then ve got dysenteria; probably acoquired on board \ The captain and chief steward were nice people; we got the cabin we promised The ship is straight out of dry dock, and was peinte;{, but the cabins were stripped of fixtures, except for the ceiling light. wires were jutting. out of the wall where reading lights and fan shouldhave been. I brought a fan of ours and mounted on the well. The engines wore bad news. They run ~ eniy.on helf speed ahead. At full 1b 3 2007 J ed theyyx ovorheal;, ali, and also at low speed spe