Majuro, Marshall Isiands, May 29 (AP) - Two Marshallese school teachers
were the chief drafters of a petition to the UN complaining ebout hydrogen
bomb experinents in their honeland.

The pair, Dv* ght .ine and Atien Anjen,

emphatically deny any Ausrican imowingly assisted them.

they did not !mow it," Heine said in an interview,
of Americans.

‘Some did heip bet

"We asked many questions

We asked who one would write to and how it would bs addressed

Dut we cid not tell them what we were going to do.

We also read UN pamphlets

and saw how petitions anpearing in them were worded."

Hci: said twe Americans

Saw an early draft of ths petition but it carried no heading,

He said ons,

Keith Smith, Americen manager for Marshallese Trading Compeny, said ‘Who wrote
it?

Iv is beautifully written."

continued.

"It taxed me and Atlan to write it,"

“We worked every day for nearly a month.

Mershallase and put down tneir ideas.

prevent,”

Ws would mest with other

Then we would make a rough draft.

thought we had too meny dangers in it.
and decided on letha2.

Heine

I

So I looked through ths dictionary

I aiso found word circumvent as a substitute for -~

Hele, whose grandfather was German, is bigger than most Marshallese.

He is 35 years old, has dark skin and bushy hair,

He is superintendent cf the

Marshall Islend schools,
Heme probably is one of the best educated Marshallese.

spokesman between the people and Americans,
the Prctesiant Jesuit Mission School.

high at Kusaie,

He is the

‘riie started school in 1928 at

In 1936 he went to a mission junior

When the Americans moved into the Marshalis during World

War II he worked for the U.S, Navy as a guide and interpreter,

and 1950 he attended the University of Hawaii in Honolulu,

Between 1948

Last yeer he

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travelled for 3 months in New Zealand, Samca and Fiji on a UNESCO fellowship.

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