1965 - 1968 1969 Thyroid surgery on 12 Rongelap people carried out in Boston. Cleanup of Bikini for return of inhabitants. Five Marshallese had thyroid surgery in U. S. 1970 One Marshallese had thyroid surgery in Cleveland. 1971 Marshallese Congressman (Congress of Micronesia) visits Japan and invites a Japanese team to visit Rongelap. Team arrives but because of conflict over credentials they are denied visas and returned to Japan. Return of two Bikini families to Bikini to-live. BNL medical team assumes responsibility for radiological monitoring of returning Bikini and Eniwetok people. Documentary movie Thyroid Neoplasia as a Late Sequella of Radioactive Fallout filmed in Marshall Islands. Shows the medical team in action. we x January: Marshallese Congraj and consciously allowingthe . OE . 2 n accuses the u.sBE knowingly Marshallese people to Wwe exposed to radioactive fallout ‘dprdex. study. the effect of radiation on human beings; accuses"thedid@®tedtit_ of umimg Rongelap people as guinea pigs and not giving them proper medicat- examinations and adequate treatment. In March he told the Rongelap and Utirik people not to cooperate with the medical team. Annual medical survey not completed. Also 4 patients who had been operated for thyroid cancer and were to be reexamined at Tripler Army Hospital were stopped and told to return home. April: Congress of Micronesia establishes a Special Joint Committee concerning the medical examinations at Rongelap and Utirik atolls. August: Sep Chairman: Senator Olympio T. Borja. Resident physician stationed in Marshall Islands. er: A we appoineed et 1 medical survey resumed, with cooperation from ngreesot @Micrenesia-sad partiéLlpation of four observers from. severalcowutrigs BiComprehen}ive “reportgoaralty favurabteto. the medigal examinatidiis published. “BPRS OS ee Seep ce October/November: A ‘Soulext exposed”malé, found to have acute myelogenous leukemia, dies at, Natfpnal Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Mapuiand, and is returned forMpurial “at ‘Rongelap. an Bectsionmade to cenduct hematological surveys at 6 . aZz ae th inter - Two Rongelap’ people had thyroid surgery in Cleveland.” *‘ ae Soe : a ge Fu 1972 7 - 84 -