PRIVACY ACT MATERIAL REMOVED -3bo father is the new reverend. He was on the ship with wife and daughte. a ison Ujae. Rev. from Rongelap was also on board, He will be on Wotje for some years, They ship them ermound. Maybe they use their sermons over again atthe new place. I visited « She was in good shape, but had not nursed the beby. She was fed jackaroo and rice vater. We had some canned milk, and I gave her baby vitamins. The kid was normal and developing normally as far as I could see. She was pale, but I had given my pediatric FeS0, away at Ailuk, and of course there there Was no suck thing in the dispensary. What they dont have would make up an excellent first aid kit. was well supplied with synthroid and claimed she was taking it religiously. Our houses were allright. Ian lives in one of them. They had brought in lumber for a new school hause, so Andy now has supplies without stripping pore of our walls Wednesday morning we got out early to greet Mejit, only to learn that the ship had been ordered on a medical evacuation to (you guessed it) Rongelap. Now we had a double race with time - thought the patient was in extremis it was one of eranddaughters who had dysehteria, but also ve had to make it to Kwajalein with her early Thursday morning before they closed the area for a mission. It vas a calm day. Ezra and I took the boston whaler ashore from way out, and wet the ship again at the passage. I bought the last four bags of Bice on board ( they had been destined for Mefit) and took along for shore. O: the way in we met the community boat with . ot al, They had been to Bikini shopping and knew nothing about the whole excitement. It was baby. She had not been mursed, hed weaned her in the puerperiun and taken the first boat to Ebeye. old mother was in charge and the kid was starved more than sick, although she had watery stools. Liv and I fed her 1100 ml of milk during the next 12 hours. That place of faa sight! If I had to come back to that each night I wouldn't feel like working either, I crawled under that hut and 1007 kids in all ages were crawling with me and there and . were sitting and nursing their babies (If only they could have spread it around and let kid share we could have been apared the trip), and the grandgrandacther was sitting there with unseing eyes and fanning the baby. It was a sight of udder profusion. We grabbed the kid and some butterfly needles and transfusion unite from the dispensary and headed back for the ship. As it happened = ve didn't have to give the transfusions. It is my shortest visit to Rongelap so far. At Ewajalein it was decided the ship had to go back to Majuro and pick up copra bags. Then it would repeat the interrupted field trip before going west and to Rongelap. I heard on the radio that they reached Mejit todey. It means that those passengers have been on that deck for 6 mEXH weeks. And here T am sitting in an airconditioned room and complaining. As I have said before, it is not that I cannot take it for a while, but I cannot base a lifetime program on wasting nine days out of ten. If you have an attentive ear somewhere in the Interior Dapt. hammer it home to him that these field trip operations are a travesty of service, and so pe devoid of safety considerations it is outright oriminal. when disaster strikes United States will be blamed for it. I know the spiel about not intefering in S05! yb5 PRIVACY ACT.MATERIALREMOVED