REPOSITORY COLLECTION BOxNo. FOLDER Doe/WAS Doevv LF QY, ELDA AOSSLO , o wt 3 1O0- SUED , DA. CORARD 2/4 Z4ru 96960 l22 4767 Dre Robert A. Conard, Mel). Brookhaven National Laboratory Associated Universities, Inc. Upton, Long Island, lew York 11973 January 10, 1967 BEST COPY AVAILABLE Dear Bobs Thank you for your letter of Octobe. 26, 1966 and please excuse this belated reply. The pressure of ycareend doin;'s has been very heavy (including my travelling). In addition, the necessar; re= scteduling of Field Trips to accomodate the Peace Corps has made a shamble of our "schedules", and we are still trying to get everything back on track arain. Our transportation situation has not improved, has worsened. (If that is possible!) If anythinz, it The RalikeRatak is still avaiting a dry«dock schedule, and we had a rather serious enzine breakdown about a month aso high=lightin~ the urgency of this dry= dockinge The Militobi broke its anchorewinch, also about a month aco, and the repair has gotten snarled up in paper redetape to a Comic=opera proportion$ We are hopeful that the anchorechain winch will be repaired in a week or two, but the Militobi's "Sehedule" is hopclessly outeof-= kilter. To complicate matters, we expect the second phase of the Peace Corps Volunteers arrivals to take place around the latter part of Yebruary, 1967. If the first phase is anv criteria, we are going to have considerable pressure exerted upon useavaine-to schedule the 'ield vesc;els to exveditiously accomodate tie Peace Corps. This constant “directing" of vessels to accomodate various ine terest groups is makin: a mockery of our Field trip Scliedule = a mockery which is very ininical to the interest of the outeislanders, relayinz upon field schedules with scne decree of re,ularity. I point these thinss out to you to show you how impossible it is, as of this date, to say that we can have a licld vessel at Kwajalein on Thursday, :ebruary 20, reared into a “Recular Medical Field Trip" or one at Roncelap on Wednesday, riarch 15, 1967, maxing its "Reculan" trip. The only way we can have a vessel ready to lift you and your party to and from Kon-elap on yo r stated da.es, are to schedule them