assistance in the educational program for the Marshallese. He spent several weeks living with the people in the Islands for this purpose. Strong support forthe program has continued from the staff of the Department of Energy, among whom are Ms. R. Clusen, Drs. W. Burr, B. Wachholz, and J. Blair, and Mr. T. McCraw; at the Nevada Operations Office, Messrs. M. E. Gates and R. Ray; and at the Pacific Area Support Office in Honolulu, Messrs. W. Stanley, H. U. Brown, W. Streenan, J. Foard, J. Abreu, and others. In the Department of the Interior, we appreciate the support and assis-— tance of Ms. R. G. Van Cleve, Mr. J. DeYoung, and others, and many in the Trust Territory, including Mr. A. Winkel, Mr. D. Heine, and Dr. M. Kumanjagi. We are most grateful to the people of the Marshall Islands for their continued cooperation with the medical teams in carrying out the examinations, and we greatly value the warm friendships that have developed with them over the years. Many of the Rongelap and Utirik people have been of great assistance to the examining teams. These include the Magistrates of both atolls and many Rongelap people, including John Anjain, Billiet Edmond, Jabwe Jorju, Niktimus Antak, Almira Matayoshi, Lejohn MacDonald, and, at Utirik, Kabto Campus, Maja Lena, Harold Mathew, and Andy More. We wish to express our appreciation for the cooperation and support of many in the new government of the Marshall Islands, including Mr. Amata Kabua, President, Mr. Oscar DeBrun, Chief Secretary, Mr. Henry Samuels, Minister of Health, and others including Messrs. Jeton Anjain, Donald Mathew, Jack Helkena, Kaleb Rantak, and Carmen Biggler; and, in the Health Services DiviSion, Drs. Ezra Riklon, John Laman, Masao Korean, and Masao Kasino and Ms. Ruth Harris. We are indebted to many people at Kwajalein (Kwajalein Missile Range) for logistic support, including the Commanding Officer and others on his staff, and personnel of Global Associates, including Messrs. Don McAfee and James Watt. We are also grateful to the staff of Kwajalein Hospital for their generous support. We appreciate greatly the excellent medical care given the Marshallese patients by the staffs at the Hospital of the Medical Research Center at BNL, the Cleveland Metropolitan General Hospital, and Tripler Army Hospital. We would like to give special thanks to the crew of the DOE survey ship, Liktanur, who went out of their way to provide support and comfort to the medical teams traveling aboard their ship. We also wish to thank the charitable organization, New Eyes for the Needy (Short Hills, NJ), for donating to the Marshallese hundreds of pairs of eyeglasses, which were greatly appreciated. S00bu 12 - x: