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faith in these (DOE) physicians...I am
also impressed withthe failure of the
physicians to communicate findings and
prognosis to the people...These basic
rights of a patient have been in a
large part ignored...I found very few
Marshallese who were acquainted with
the nature of their pathology.
I reject firmly the thought that the people
were too primitive or uneducated to ab-
sorb such information, since I have
found this not to be true."
OCTOBER U.S.: Scientists with the U.S.
Center for Disease Control report that
the number of leukemias found in ser-
vicemen exposed to the "Smoky" nuclear
Seven PACE military and civilian
personnel, Trust Territory officials,
interpreters, hearing officers, re-
porters and others arrived by ship
at Ujelang to find the community well
prepared for their visit.
People
come out in small boats wearing card-
board signs saying "ENANA PACE" (PACE
IS BAD).
The Americans go through a
welcoming arch to shake hands with
the entire community, many of whom
are wearing “ENANA PACE" signs.
PACE officials did not take the
prospect of opposition seriously.
“Local opposition is a fact of life
in so many military projects," comments one PACE representative.
The Americans spend a day and a
half presenting slide shows, films <5
and photographs of proposed PACE
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test in 1957 is almost three times the
expected rate.
PACE HEARING ON UJELANG - 1973
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DECEMBER Northern Marshalis: Loma Linda
University completes a study for the
Interior Department on the proposed
medical program according to PL 96-205.
At an Interior Department-sponsored
meeting in Washington, D.C., spokes-
people for the Marshall Islands Government state their "most strenuous exception to the statement in...the Loma
Linda report that ‘there are minimal ra-
‘high explosive tests.
They argue
that “the tests would help to pro-
tect the freé,world and were thus
in the interest of all present.”
The Enewetak magistrate responds
to PACE officials: “My people and I
«..do not like PACE; we do not want
PACE to continue; and we want you to~take this message to your people."
The magistrate said if PACE is as
safe for the atoll as the Americans
say it is, President Nixon and High
Commissioner Johnston should be told
this and the PACE tests could take
place near the White House and the
Commissioner's residence. During
occasional pauses in the magistrate's
specch, the people respond in unison
with a resounding "PACE is BAD."
Other members of the community
speak, guestioning the morality of
PACE and suggesting that if the
Americans went ahead they would
Sail to Enewetak to be killed in
the explosions. At the end, the
magistrate thanked the Americans
for coming, and presented gifts of
handicrafts to them; the people sang
in the Marshalls.’ The statement in the
three songs, one “Oh, how I love my
atoll" in a very emotional conclusion.
The Americans were taken a-
a cursory review of incomplete medical
back, one commenting,
diation related health effects evident
report apparently was based entirely on
records, brief interviews with a linit-
is going on here?"
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“For me and the other people on
Rongelap, it is life which matters
most.
For you it is facts and figures.
We want our life and our
health.
In all the years you've
come to our Island, you've never
once treated us as people.
You've
never sat down among us and really
helped us honestly about our probJems.
You have told people that
the ‘worst is over,' then Lekoj
Anjain died.
I am very worried
that we will suffer again and again.”
Nelson Anjain, Magistrate of
Ronyelap in a 1975 letter to
Dr. Robert Conard, Brookhaven
National Laboratory.