+ eAey te Be
to pay the claims on Ebeye.
y
ili
sansa'
i
Ker ah he etd
‘thereafter things progressed relatively snoothly.
Td "complete the critique of the administrative problems, Mr. Murawski
accompunied us to the outer islands porti.
/
of Rongelap and Utirik and although
he {ts a very capable employec of Holmes aad Narcver, he is not current on the
problems of compensation, per diem, and the details of the new PL 6.
e
These
questions, atong with questioas os to Land custody were raised on both Roagetap
and Utirik and Mr. Nurayski did the best he could under difficult circumsten:
but unfortunately, im many cases had to state that he di. not have the answer
Lo the question but vould fours @ the question to DOK dm Honelulu.
T Feel he
was placed in an untenable position Ly being asked to give definitive auswecy
to problems for which he was not prepared.
Political
sud Public Relations Aspoets -
Jt has been a long-estebtlished ps ineiple of these surveys for the
leader
the Brookhaven medical team to pay a courtesy ¢ cll on the members of the
Islands gevernwent.
Oscar de
ti
Brun,
74
- II.
Marsal
During this visit To met with and had Joug discussions vith
the Chief Scceretary of
the Marshall fslands government.
During
oe discussions he specifically asl.cd 10 what actions were being conLomplated
in Washington regarding the information Chat Tony de
Likiap.
2 informed him that
To had met
Brum
had presented on
with the Tabershaw group and that when I
left the U.S. a proposal was being developed to review the epideatoloste evidence
4
of an increased incidence of thyroid and birth abnormalities on Liktlap.
‘the
following day at noon Osrar picked me up at the hospital and drove me to the
Bastern Gateway where we had Junch with Amata
Islands.
Amata vas particularly
to authorize medical
Kabua, the President of the
Harehalst
interested in what formal action had been tation
care for the Bikinians end was also interested in further