73 STATEMENT OF GLENN H. ALCALAY, FORMER PEACE CORPS VOLUNTEER, TRUST TERRITORY OF THE PACIFIC ISLANDS ir Mr. Aucatay. Iam a Peace Corps volunteer who was on uM Atoll. I have submitted a written statement I wish included in the testimony. I would just care to say I am honored to be here on behalf of these people and I ask the committee be as sympathetic as possible when considering compensation and continued medical care for these people in the context of human rights. President Carter, and his administration, are very interested in human rights. It should be pointed out these people's lawman ciglits have been violated ag a byproduct of negligence on the pact of this Government. 1 think these people are continuing to suffer as a part of this neghgence Thad a conversation aii. one of ie ductors yesterday He gave the estimate-..it is not clear how jong tuese people are gorny to suffer Senator Mevrzznsnata Would son identify vourself Mr Avcanay Glenn Alcala oa fori: Peace Corps colantect Senator Miizrspat Me. Are vou st Hoi ine istand Mr. Aba ain) ] No pecatipech PUSE tran re, Marsnals Pliage denator MerzexpatM. We appre cate Sour tahitye (he Cie and trou dle in order to be a Peace Corps cot onteer Sut for the siteaents os pressed and I am sure those sentiments ane shared by meniber~ of thi -omimitteer as wellas by the aduisuistiaten, foafortuhatels coduet dues aut always provide answers te sane f the crelles : sodiore uo dothe best wecanunder the aeons canes 'The prepared statement of MP4 SP aPPwENT OF tcth >> tt Rog ae eletip. bf kato: if re Fhe sabe aigida from iin period of Marnob + ba MeN + ~” » mie VOM ~ . bap 2 tte ‘ Poe siaicben. addon Porapak Abad: tot iwe jearean # cooperative advisor oes cds the Departicent of tgricultur (be Marshalls district) and aise cea PEAT oteuching Puglisi o- a second ianguage) leacber tn the following pages TPohave sciamertzedk scqne of che diajor areas whieh I feel to be of importance li relation to Me Tocirik people and thetr onugeling prob ieuls €6 & Consequence of Raving 1084. bec iicudiated tu the ducident of March 1 NR eeeee eee a 1 Peychological effects of radiation on ! birikeae (@) The people of Uttrik generally believe (hat they are Hying ono a sti radioactive, environment, despite the iudividual phssiclans’ and EROA/Brookbaven'a claims (o the contrary This luch of trust xfems from the doctors telling the people that ‘everything is alright now" in juxtaposition with an increased smumber of radiation-related dineases in recent sears (0) There is a family Uving in Utirik (Juda family) who was not realding on Utirik Atoll at the time of the incident on March 1. 1954. This family had been fving om adjacent Alluk Atoll, but did however accompany the rest of the re turning Utirikese back to their atoll following their three-month forced evacuathon to Kawajalein Atoll after the incident. Since their return to Utirik in 1954, three people in this family—Juda, Mauno, and Kiobedra—have contracted thyroid tumors that required surgical removal. After having spent 2 yeara talking with this family on Utirik Atoll, I am convinced that this family sincerely belleves their maladies to be a direct reault of Uving on Udrik Atoll. eapecially since they returned with the Utirikese so soon after the incident to an emvironment that <till contained “poison” (radiation).