July 15, 1980

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Gordon Stemple
Attorney at Law
9720 Wilshire Boulevard
4th Floor
Beverly Hills, California

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I;arshall Islands

Dear )lr. Stemple:
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At your request I have prepared a suTm,ary of my
op~~~o:>s on my visit to the Nershall Islands . I was
deeply impressed by the kindness of the people a:~dby
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courtesy, and by the willing.=--~s znd innate
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r,~ss of the vice speaker and the president to spend time
with us and listen to us.
Ily medical background should be set out so that
I have practiced internal
these opinions may be judged.
I have been accredited
medicine for thirty-five years.
many
years ago to use
by the Atomic Energy Conrnission
radioacti~re isotcpes in medical practice for tl>eatment of
certain thyroid diseeses, including h~.pert.hyroidism, and
I think I was one
in the diagnosis of thyroid diseases.
Of
the
fi~st doctors to be so lice~=e~ for use of radio-.
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active isotopes in their office in Los Angeles.
rsay have been ten or fifteen Ot-.hersof us at the same
In preparation for this licen~ure I stu~3ied =bout .
tine.
six months at UCL.~, teking ccurses in radioactive physics
and radiation in general.
I used radioisotopes for the
diagnosis and treatment of thy~oid disorders up until
about five years ago, when space became c~o~ded an~.the
lzrge scanner and the devotion of a rocin In my office was

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