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By Buck Donkom
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religion professor atthe
University of Hawai, said.
the South Pacific is espe‘cially important because
o - Several delegates to the
« Conference for a Nuclear’ Free Pacific stopped here
' yesterday en route back
‘ from a meeting they hope:
the United States plans to
operate its new’ Trident
submarines, carrying
missiles with multiple nuelear warheads, in the
e will result in the banning
tional law, Douglass said.
“Among the delegates
who arrived in Honolulu
yesterday were two who
have had first-hand ex' penence with the terrors
- of nuclear weapons.
They were Ichiro Mori-
taki,
. Of all-nuclear weapons ; South as well as North
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Pacific.
“ Roger Gale, Quaker
The treaty, if passed by
International Affzirs
the UN, would put U.S.
¢ representative
from
military intentions in di-
University and a victim of
the Hiroshima bombing:
and.Nelson Anjain, mayor
of Rongelap Atoll, whose
inhabitants were exposed
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He said the conferees
adopted in principle a
draft treaty that would
prohibit. any nuclear
Weapon in the South
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from 22 nations’ attended
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which ended Saturday. in
Suva, Fiji.
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Professor Mortaki said
he lost the vision of his
right
eye,
which
was
“roasted’’ by the atomic
explosion in Hiroshima.
Mayor Anjain, whose
nephew died of leukemia.
said his people suffer not
only from radiation-induced uUlness from the nuclear blast at Bikini, but
also from inadequate
medical attention.
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the Indian Ocean, Antarc-
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the Trust Territories.
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THE TREATY which
will go to the United Na-
tions General Assembly,
would be similar to those
already in effect for An-
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Similar treaties- are
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Malaysia, Indonesia
New Guinea, he said.
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