’ Wednesday,April 9,:1975 V-—we i “From generation-to. and all ‘those “stillin1the’, ew - ww Henolulu Stor-Bulletin Co 4 wweerewr vy ew we eualitied doctors be. ‘ generation we.went-with-- womb:at:the time of.the ‘based onRongelap topro- t. ws «. lives and we don’t know ¢ what is happening.” oe . vide daily medical.servout worrying ‘about-eny- * ‘fallout. » wey, tee, - % thing,” said the-mayorof | HE "SAID the. ‘United XL ~ tiny Rongelap. Island:in’ States deported a-Japa--— Radiation experts.and - Micronesia. -doctors, prefer-.. . Then in 1954 the United. mese. medicaltteam that .-medical: Aa nls cine sn <:States set off H-bomb “had been ‘invited. by ‘the -<ably “*AnCiUuaigs some’ irom | < Bravo on Bikini,‘and the ~ people to conduct Physical’ sHiroshima, survey Ron- ‘ -gelap and issue ‘individual. ‘ - Fadioactive fallout drifted : “vexaminations: =. diagnoses. : ‘Anjian would like to” and fell dike snow on Ron/ gelap andits 86 residents. -send four or five of his -—-The Atomic Commis: Since then, said Mayor . people to Japanese doc- ‘sion no longer-be permit-. %\- Nelson Angian, *‘We tors in Hiroshima ‘to ‘be .ted to use the people of « worry all the time. -We examined. Rongelap and adjacent . are worried about -our In. a petition to the Utirik as ‘‘guinea pigs” “Nelson Anjian Secretary General of .the- ‘for their. bomb-related re‘United Nations and :the . search. ~ 2 Anjian said his~--people . “United Nations Trustee- | cvive:‘today, Anjian said. ¢have appealed ‘time .and Ship :Council, -Anjian .is “ONLY135. off those ex: - _*He said: the population ¢’ again tothe. United States . askingthat:. coe " Posed to ‘the radiation sur- an of: Rongelap is. now .200, ‘for: adequate. medical +t ‘; care. American doctors é: \,, visit the islandand exam- “THEY TELL us to eat «: |THE crab only three . times a week,” he said, 4 but do not explain why it é cannot be eaten every § day. né¢ Gt « how. We are afraid,” : Said. . he “They say ‘don’t ‘worry. Don’t question the doc- tor,” he said, ““and they . give the people pills. We . don’t know what for or * why. » - Anjian said 19 persons :"have. died in Mainland hospitals of “leukemia, . . “but ‘we dgp’t know why - they die on Rongelap.’’. x ‘Many of the pepple -of « his island have, had sur« very for thyroid tumors, a ¢those that were children’ ‘ Moe “ mee . *. gelap is no problem.. “In three ‘months we :can make .20 .to .25tons--of copra. “From ‘the sale of copra, the people buy im-_ported rice, flour, sugar * and kerosene.”’ ‘They eat. é coconut, ~ breadfruit, ' “, pandanus,-fish and shell- - «all Gli * he said, including all : .He said ‘money ‘on Ron- - “eb ge 241 cand that they want-tostay with the current adminis- ~ 7- tory. &. year now rather than SIE Ldnnt we Uuilt Cat LAS ¢: tration of the Trust Terri- tha ‘ine the people twice é (mee ae < fish, he-said. He said he has 9-chil- ‘. dren, ‘and earns about $1,000 a year, which is 4 enough tosupport his wife | ~and family. , ‘For 27 years he worked _-on Kwajalein as a carpen- “ter, and ‘returned to his 4 native.island a little over ¢ ayearago. - “Don’t talk to me about “ money;”* he said. ~ “Money is nothing. My | life is important. . “The-life of my people is important.” _ é oo. é 199