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FOR THE RECORD. SINCE WE STILL HOPE TO RCACH SOME ACCORD HERE
On MASURO. WE REQUEST ENDORSEMENT OF THIS STATCHENT BY MOST

EXPEDITIOUS MEANS. BESPITC EDITORIAL IMPCRFCCTIONS. IF IT CAN BE
ENDORSED VERBATIM IT WILL BE MOST HELPFUL. SHOJLD THERE BE
SUBSTANTIAL DISAGRCENENT. IT IS ESSENTIAL THAT WE KNOW THAT CIH
DETAIL} IMMEDIATELY. STATENCNT FOLLONS:
w-THE UNITED STATES CONDUCTS PROGRAMS OF ENVIRONMENTAL AND REDICAL

SURVEILLANCE AND MEPICAL TREATMENT Tit THE MARSHALL TSLANDS. THE

PURPOSE OF THE MEDICAL TREATMENT PROWRAR 1S TO MITIGATE THE RADIATION
RELATED CONSEQUENCES OF

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MARSHALLS. THE SURVEILLANCE PROGRAMS DEVELOP IAFORMATION NEEDED
BY THE GOVERNMENT AND THE PEOPLE OF THE AARSHALLS.
e-THE SOLE JUSTIFICATION FOR THE ABOVE MENTIONED PROGRANS IS SO
THAT THE UNITED STATES CAN INFORM THE GOVERNMENT AND THE PEOPLE
OF THE MARSHALL ISLANDS, AND PURSUANT To P-L. 95-334 CARE FOR
CERTAIN OF THESE PEOPLE. WITHOUT SUCH JUSTIFICATION THE UNITED
STATES WOULD TERMINATE ALL SUCH PROGRAMS. ALTHOUGH THE KNSULEDGE

GAINED IN THESE PROGRAMS IS OF INTEREST To SCIENTISTS THROUGHOUT

THE WORLD AND IS AVAILABLE TO SCIENTISTS EVERYWHERE THE SCICNTIFIC

KNOWLEDGE PER SE IS NEITHER SO UNIGUE NOR SO VALUAELE AS TO JUSTIFY

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CONDUCT. AND HOPES TO CONTINUE. A SHALL NATURAL SCIENCE RESEARCH

PROGRAM AT ENCUETAK ATOLL: THE MED-PACIFIUC MARINE LADORATERY
OPERATED FOR THE UNITED STATES BY THE UNIVERSITY OF HAUATI HAS
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