hn ae eters 8 1965 - 1968 1969 Thyroid surgery on 12 Rongelap people carried out in Boston, Cleanup of Bikini for return of inhabitants. Five Marshallese had thyroid surgery in U. S. 19709 One Marshallese had thyroid surgery in Cleveland. 1971 Marshallese Congressman (Congress of Micronesia) visits Japan ie Team arrives and invices a Japanese team ro visit Rongelap. burt oecause of conflict over credentials they are denicd visas and returned co Japan. Return of two Bikin£ families to Bikini to live. BNL medical team assumes responsibility for radiological monitoring of returning Bikini and Eniwetok people. Documentary movie Thyroid Neoplasia as a Late Sequella of Radioactive Faliout filmed in Marshall Islands. Shows the medical ceam in action. 1972, January: Marshallese Congressman accuses the U.S. of knowingly and consciously allowing the Marshallese people to be exposed to radioactive fallout in order to study the cffece of radiation on human beings; accuses medical team of using Rongelap people as guinea pigs and not giving them proper medical examinations and adequate treatment. In March he cold the Rongelap and Utirik people not to cooperate with the medical team. Annual medical survey not completed. Also 4 pacients who had been operacec for thyroid cancer and were to be reexamined at Tripler Army Hospical were stopped and told co return home. April: Congress of Micronesia establiskes a Special Joing Committee concerning the medical examinations at Rengelap and Utirik atolls, Chairman: Senator Olympir ¢. T3 F August: Resident physician stationed in Me. ++ 1. lslands, September: Annual medical survey resumeu, v2 evvperation Crom Committee from Congress of Micronesia and part. .ipation of Cour appointed medical observers from several countries. Comyrchensive report generally favorable to the medical examinations published. October/November: <A young exposed male, found to have acute myelogenous leukemia, dies ac National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Maryland, and ts returned for burial at Rongelap. Decision made to conduct hematological surveys at 6-month intervals. Two Rongelap people had thyroid surgery in Cleveland. 5 . ~ 84 - *