CY vt =26releted and then laughed heartily. Heine, whose parents and grendparents were killed by the Japanese, said "We (Marshallese) like the Americans, to have you (U.S.) stay here." We petitioned Congress with 2,C00 names If Heine or his fnnati wordees have eny regret about the petition sent to the U.N. it is that it might bommerang and hurt the trust territory people. in on the petition, "There was a reason we did uot have Americans They are very nice, trouble," he explained, We did not want them to get in Later Heine came to me and said: "We want Mr. (Maynar3) Neas (Acting District Administrator) to be District Administrator, I? in any way our petition implies lack of confidence in him or the Trust Territory Government say that it is not not so." Heine said thet "Everyone (Americans in the Marshalls) sympathize with us. They felt a responsibility for what hanpened."' That is the concensus of what I found in talking to the Americans on the island. Neas, in commenting on the accident, said: "I believe officials of the nuclear tests should have given adequate and timely information te the natives so they could protect themselves, To my lmowledz2 this was rot done," Bob L. Omis, missionary for the American Board of Commissioners of Foreign Mission, Bostsrn, is on Mojuro translating the Bible for the deeply religious Marshallese. Hemade this comment on the petiticn: Dwight (Heine) is smart. It wag a sensible way to handle it as it did not involve (U.S.) Government people. consciousness," "I think I approve it. It will help the people here get national Doctor Dunham Kirkham of Avoca, New York, a former Army doctor and now the Trust Territory doctor for the Marshall Islands, said of the incident: "It's tough on these people, of our promises, They seem a littie distrustful They are thinking of Bikini." (more) Another Trust Territory