PRIVACY ACT MATERIAL REMOVED - 31- mopies, and it is further a discriminazory act depriving the people of Micronesia of equal protection of the laws, in violation of the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment to the Constitution. The Human Consecuences The effect of the policy is not only destructive of the developing political institutions in the Trust Territory, but it has a devastating impact upon the human beings who are the beneficiaries of these federal programs. A sworn statement by one of our clients, of Yap, is a poignant example of this. - has a seventeen year-old son who is enrolled in the Yap Vocational Rehabilitatio: Program because his left leg was amputated at the hip. Vocational Rehabilitation was to have terminated at the end of September last. . affidavit says: If the program is eliminated in September of 1979, as is projected, my son is likely to suffer greatly. Sometime in late July my son is scheduled to visit Majuro Hospital, Marshall Islands, to be measured for a prosthetic device. In that the program will soon be terminated, his scheduled trip to the Marshalls may be cancelled. Even if he is successfully measured for the prosthetic device, the program may not be able to order it before its scheduled termination. ale Lo enegeee ih eee to ‘ ETN re eter ora ms a owaee