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The ideas in or. Graves! letter have Sean discussed before cut ma;
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Pr. Graves quotes from your letter, "es. believe that one funda=

that wiille we say mowincgly and with just: fication expose a zsenber
of the operations] teav to a real hasard, we are not in a position to
do that to the off-site public", and then proceeds with several lovical
atatesents and assertions “o «which one mi:ht agree entirely but which

are ratver irrelevant to tho princdnal point of the quotation.

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Sugnect, without omowing whit is in cr, craves? mind, of course, U.at

the point that led him to write a3 he [ic wos the onrase “4... which

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“eference is made to par. ° of “r. Sraves! letter were he wovld

stop the interration of doses whem the “ose rate became equal or

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By thie method we woukd ce left with the sroblem of explalsinr
t) the Lav nurlic the meaniar acl girni tfLeanee of the sextra’ doses

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mental matter which is forgotten in discussing test operations iy

ever aad hevond the 3,2 vfs mat peor rDed up ia the time where Tre

cose rate “ad cropped to this noiat anc of defending the 17's posietion in cerci‘tine the ceneral population to be gu: jected to t.is

“axtra® cuantitye “ldmination of the of Jectionable word "ever~
exposure” ii) not selve this proolem,

There ig some selentific tasis and creeedent for interrating

over perio¢s of time

in the orcer of 10-15 weeks.

truc for the method "r, craves oropo3es.

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lastly, Gironsh usage anc odneation there "as been sone degree

of sccentance on the part

of the ceneral ou lic for an integrated

figure of 3249 re. To chanre %o fr. craves! proposal would require
reeeducation, with possible weaxening of the peblic's confidance

in 4°C standards,
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Reference ig made to the last nararran: or “r, Craves! Letcer.

ifter the ciseucsions that too: slace ‘urine the Feasibility committee
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