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ACTION: ‘The Japanese” reported ‘the extent!‘of. the,total?

amount of ash’recovered as 50 millecuriés,: They” now.“deny. that
this muchis” available and have” no Anventory, of the’“material,”
Except for the Small” amount”or ash turned) over, to-ime; by. Dri” =

Nakaizumi and “a similar’‘amount,“which: I “recovered”ona subse- ="

quent visit: to the Fukuryu Mara; no ‘ash, has deen|ade.javatlable
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but interrelated problems. Of ‘these, the most urgent was the
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clinical status of the 23 fishérmen;, a.‘Bubject™“with which Dr. Pea ee
_Morton is”exclusively- conterned and ‘aboutwhichhe’ ‘wid ‘report
ceparately.” Other problems’ which’ require.Tattentionwere:
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the question. ‘or~maximum permissable “contamination”wun 117;more “th tRE
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Sexe of the Japs nese Governs ent officials are elircedy referring to the latter half of March as the "great tuna panic.
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origin of this panic both in the United States and Jeran is.

worthy of careful study, | The. extent to which the. tuna. ‘cénstizp=

tion in the_ United States “and”|Japan, deciined during,‘the’ second.4
half of March isnotknown _tore at this tice,’ Por’adey priors”. Looe

to my departure from New York”_on_ Ifaarch 19, and for 2 weeks follow- . ore?
ing my arrival in Tokyo on March 22 the subject of ‘radicactive.:
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