Marshallese:

Ray:

Who was it that you had thought would be in this meeting?

We had expected to see representatives of the leadership of the

atolls that were surveyed and any other members of the Nitijella, any
members of the government.

We were prepared to have whoever might be

accommodated in whatever space would be provided.

I think it was left

entirely to the government to make the choice of who would be here to
listen to us.
' Buck: We have another question here.

Ray:

Yes.

Marshallese:

The title of the book as presented here on the book says this

report concerns atolls in the northern part of the Marshalls.

Now just

which atolls are these?

Ray:

They are listed, I believe, on the, well...here named on the chart on

page 8 and 9.

Those are all] the ones that were surveyed.

not deal with Enewetak and Bikini.

This report does

They've been separately reported in

other reports.
Buck:

All right another question.

Marshallese:

Why did you treat Enewetak and Bikini differently from the

others?
Ray:

Enewetak and Bikini had been the subject of earlier surveys and there

were decisions that the Enewetak people had to make in 1979, before we had
this survey completed.

So we prepared a booklet, a separate booklet, for

Enewetak which was presented in 1979.

Similarily, the people of Bikini

asked us to make an earlier presentation to them when they had to make some
decisions about their future.
them.

(and) So we produced a separate booklet for

Those are mentioned in the back last few pages of...

Bikini is

mentioned on page 61 and Enewetak on page 59.
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