Mr. Tothnny F. McCraw ~2- March 28, 1974 ago when decisions were being made regarding Bikini which are related to today's Enewetak imperatives. One important difference which I see is the emergence of people like Chips Barry, of Micronesian Legal Services, as really solidly committed champions of the rights and interests of the people. By omitting Mitchell's name from that comment, I mean him no slight; I simply do not know him well enough to give him such an endorsement, but neither do I have any reason to question his integrity nor his commitment. I believe in Chips Barry's motivation, intelligence and integrity, and I do not believe that he considers us as adversaries. I think we need him end the application of his talents and interest to our goal. That's a very long introduction, but now let me give you my perspective of Enewetak on March 28, 1974. First, the people understand that it is their land and they have been promised a return (semantic niceties in Haydn Williams‘ announcement notwithstanding). They understand also that they are not powerless - witness PACE, wherein a "nation" of 432 people challenged the mightiest "superpower" of the world in its own courts and proved to the world that we are a nation of laws which cn occasion protect even the little guy. (Why we haven't found a way to tell that story to the world, I don't know. It's the kind of thing that makes me proud to raise the fiag on my front lawn, in spite of Watergate.) The people also have come a long way in two years toward being prepared to understand and accept some of the complex concepts of our society. Considering the avajlability of the MLSC people, whose legitimacy as Counsel is, I think, not seriously subject to question, I submit that there is little room left for the kind of paternalism which has characterized some of our earlier relationships. The imperative of the present situation is, I believe, to build upon what we now observe, an informed capacity for selfdetermination. In our official capacities, of course, we can and must be concerned about whether the people have sufficient knowledge, intelligence and experience to make valid judaments (note I did not say "right" judgments). I am confident that - given time - we can help them to acquire the knowledge; I am confident that they have the intelligence; and I am confident that the lessons of pertinent experience can be brought to bear without too great an intrusion on their self-determination. Now let me get to specifics. Let us take first the matter of the survey report. As you know, I have felt from the earliest days of that activity that the people of Enewetak (and their retained counsel) were entitled to full disclosure of all of the information which we have gathered about their home. No temporizing, no interpreting, no censoring: just the facts. Unless you can invoke some