401926 2 ¢Wednesday, ES ‘ He .. ™, Le A c PO a APTR CI ST at as eon eeeage —_— April 9,.1975 Honolulu Star-Bulletin -—Qualified doctors be. ‘From generation to “and all those. still in the wombat ‘the time of the «based on Rongelap to pro- . ;. generation we went -with_. wide daily medical servout worrying about any- ‘fallout. : 5 ot a thing,’’ said the mayor of re Nm. 1 tiny Rongelap Island in’ .° HE: SAIDthe United. " Radiation experts and States deported a.Japa-~— Micronesia. “medical doctors, prefer- . “Then in 1954 the United . nese. -medical:team that. ably including some from | States set dff H-bomb ‘had been “invited by ‘the © -Hiroshima, survey Ronpeople.to conduct physical Bravo on Bikini, and the - gpelap and issue individual examinations. - yadioactive fallout drifted Anjian, would like to” diagnoses. and fell like snow on Ron- gelap and‘its 86 residents. - send four or five of his NAT DS NON OS OER 1 at oS 4 ‘Since then, said Mayor --Nelson Angian, “*We worry all the time. We are worried about our lives and we don’t know peopte to Japanese doctors in- Hiroshima to be examined. _. ted to use the people of | Rongelap and adjacent Utirik as ‘‘guinea pigs” visit the island and exam‘ine the people twice a -year now rather than NUNN sonce, - “THEY TELL us to eat’ oo oN, 7, . <iwith the current adminis_tration ef the Trust Terrii:* tory. rer He said money on Ronc gelap is no problem.., “In > three months we ‘can \ make 20 to 25‘tons of * copra. “From the sale of 4 He said he has 9 chil- ’ \ dren, and earns about a year, which is ro $1,000 enough to support his wife — -and family. ¢ -For 27 years he worked on Kwajalein as a carpen“ter, and returned to his * “but we don’t know why .- ad native island a tittle over a year ago. “Don't talk to me about a money,” he said. “Money is nothing. My life is important, \ his island have had surtumors, ¢* “he said, including all _these that were children’ TETTTT CE TR Te Oe.,and that they want to stay Bee © pandanus, fish and shell- ~ ¢ fish, he said. . they die on Rongelap."” ‘Many of the “people -of { - kerosene.’' They eat breadfruit, coconut, - Anjian said 19 persons - * ’ é ‘and . “We don't eat it, at all - now. We are afraid,’’ he . Said. “They say“don't WOrry. Don’t question the doc. tor,’ "he said, “and they’, give the people pills. We _ don't know what for or “why.” . 293 = _ copra, the people buy imported rice, flour, sugar but do not explain why it | cannot- be eaten every day. 5 0 \ mh ol - BEST COPY AVAILABLE coconut crab only three times a -week,"' he said, ‘gery for thyroid : ae have. died in Mainland , hospitals of leukemia, REOTeSear ee en In.a petition to. the Nelson Anjian Secretary General ofthe . for their bomb-related re~ what is happening."' United Nations and the © search. Anjian said his people “-vive today, Anjian said. United Nations Trustee“have appealed time and — ship Council, Anjianvis . -~ ONLY 135 of those ex“'He said the population Again to the United States . asking that: poo. posed: to: the fadiation Sur- -of- Rongelap is now 200, ‘for: adequate medical ... : care. American doctors _. --The Atomic Commis- sion no longer be permit- 4 c ET Te ETT TT “<The -life of my people As importa) ' EE TTL RE + ree . aiid: ree AE29 LT ee ee OE ET RS TO TET m -