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Konald & Boekel

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October

Energy,

19,

1977

Research & Development Administration

c/o Department of Energy
Washington, D.C.
20545

Re: Medical treatment
Peopie of Utirik - victims of atomic radiation
Dear Sirs;

This office has just received a communication from
our clients on Utirik Atoll indicating that they were

not visited by the ERDA Quarterly Medical Survey Team
during the June or September scheduled surveys.

Neither the people of Utirik, nor this office were
given any notice or reasons for cancellation of these
visits. After the extreme hardships that these people
have already incurred over the past 23 years,

of omission is astonishing.

this kind

This office demands an ex-

planation for the cancellation of the June and September

surveys.

The people of Utirik desperately need these medical

surveys.

During the March survey,

played symptoms of thyroid tumors.

MS

four more residents dis-

This office is quite

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