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not pursued since it concerned administrative policy of the
Trust Territory. Some of the other complaints concerned
poisoning by fish (an old complaint).
‘They claim that
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certain fish have a black spot in their abdomen which they -
believe is related to redioactivity and causes the sickness?
They are still disgruntled that they are not allowed to eat !
the coconut crebs which is forbidden because of the high
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concentration of Strontium9. They compleined that the
coconuts were small and referred to certain changes in the :
coconut and pandanus trees which they believe are due to
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fallout. There was @ complaint that I had not heard before,
that several people had gotten inflemmation and blistering of the mouth from eating arrowroot flour.
This latter
complaint was probably due to impropéF preparation of the
flour which is known to produce sucH symptoms. I heard no
mention of the silt agaihst the United States Goverment.
(Dr. Macdonald had showed me a report of the United lations
team's visit to Rongelap.
The complaints voiced to this
group were about the seme as described above.)"
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