RUTGERS THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW JERSEY ISEO JUL 25 «Fi I: 02 LIVINGSTON COLLEGE «GRADUATE PROGRAM IN ANTHROPOLOGY NEW BRUNSWICK «NEW JERSEY 08903+ 201/932-2598 Nr. Wallace 0. Green Deputy Under Secretary of International end Territorial LVepartment of the Interior July 18, 1980 4ffairs Cffice of the Secretary -Washineton, DC. 20240 wear Mr. Greens I have been edvised by Mr. Clifford Sloan, Lezislstive Assistont for Coneressmen Sidney Yates, to forward along the erclosed information concerning the vroposed resettlement of Injebi Islend in the Marshall Islands. I hope this information will vcrove to be of some use in making your decision about the resettlement, and I mst admit that I do not envy your position in having to make a determination about this most complex and difficult issue. My involvement with the Marshall Islanders began in 1975 when I was stationed on Utirik Atoll as a Peace Coros volunteer. Despite my "official" reace Corps task of helping to initiate am agricultural coOperative, as vell as to teach school on the atoll, I soon realized that the Utirik people had more immediate concerns which stemmed from their irradietion during the BRAVO shot of March 1, 1954. Specifically, the Utirik Council articulated to re their complaints about the Brookhaven Netional Laboratory me@icel program in the Maershells, and the Utirik people were becoming increasingly suspicious about the nature of that vrogram. For example, the Utirik people could not under- stand the logic of a program which spent millions of dollars annually, and which neglected to treat numerous illnesses in their population, notwithstanding that these illnesses were admittedly unrelated to radiation and its effects. A case in point concerms the 30% incidence rate of adult-onset type d!abetes as diagnosed in the Utirik group by Brookhaven doctors several years previouslyt the Brookhaven doctors carefully explained that because diabetes was unrelated to radiation, 1t was "not their responsibility," and consequently the diabetes was left untreated. Moreover, many other cases of illnesses which were allegedly unrelated to radiation--including primary and secondary health care-=-went untreated. AS a result, the Utirik people began to question the Brookhaven progran for their atoll, end they began wondering whether the program was really intended for their benefit, or perhaps for the benefit of medical science end scientific inquiry.