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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,

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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
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He said the conferees
adopted in principle a
draft treaty that would
prohibit. any nuclear
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from 22 nations’ attended
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which ended Saturday. in
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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 TREATY which
will go to the United Na-

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would be similar to those
already in effect for An-

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