WEAPONS TESTING a ee 1964 continued the missile range is the Army Ballistic of Eniwetak (not to be confused with Missile Defense program, which tests, among others, the Minutemen, Titan, Polaris, Sprint, Spartan, Nike and Zeus Enewetak Atoll), Omelek, Gellinam and Legan. On Ennylabegan, additional tel- mediate Range Ballistic Missiles, and Sea Launched Ballistic Missiles. Rongelap: The Rongelap peoples' body emetry equipment is installed and livmissiles. The range also supports Air ing quarters built. Force and Navy testing of ICBM's, Inter- JULY 1 Kwajalein: Command of Kwajalein is transferred from the Navy to the Army, and the missile range is renamed “Kwajalein Test Site." At this time the range consists of facilities on five islands: Kwajalein, Roi-Namur, Eniwetak, Gugeegue and Ennylabegan. Kwajalein: A new “impact area" for in- coming Inter-Continentai Ballistic Mis- Siles is established. The central twothirds of the lagoon, called the "“MidCorridor," is designated as the new target area because it is surrounded by islands with missile tracking and testing devices. The 47 islands, many inhabited, that bound this part of the lagoon are in the hazardous zone. The new target area provides a recovery basin protected from. enemy patrols. SEPTEMBER Kwajalein: President Lyndon Johnson announces the U.S. has an operational system for shooting down Soviet satellites, developed from tests called “Project 437" begun in May 1963 at Kwa- jalein. 1965 FEBRUARY Enewetak: The Air Force assumes control of the missile range at Fnewetak Atoll. Kwajalein: To gather information on the atmosphere re-entry of missiles fired from Vandenberg Air Force Bise, a variety of instrumentation and tracking facilities and helicopter landing pads are built on the Mid-Corridor islands levels of radiation, which jumped in 1958 after living one year on their contaminated islands, have remained at the same level since then, according to Brookhaven's 12 year report. 1966 JANUARY Rongelap: The U.S.Con- gress approves an ex-gratia payment of $950,000 (approximately $11,000 per capita) to the exposed Rongelap people for injuries resulting from their exposure in 1954. JUNE Rorigelap: Of the 29 children whow% were under 10 years old in 1954 (includ- ing 4 in utero during the fallout) 15, or 524 have deyeloped thyroid abnormal. ities. oe Rongelap: A Bookhaven medical report shows little difference in radioacti- vity levels between those exposed in 1954, and those who had not been there in 1954, but moved back after 1957. a Moreover, the body levels of radioactivity of these previously unexposed Rongelapese was 10 times greater than that of Marshallese living on Kili Island in the southern Marshalls. "One of the things that has bothered us over the years is the fact that the AEC doctors have never bothered to explain our Problems to us--instead they treat us as if we were merely children and we resent that." Jirda Biton, Utirik Atoll. 1965 JULY The Congress of Micronesia, a territory-wide legislative body mod- eled on the U. S. Congress, holds its first session after being created by an executive order of President Lyndon Johnson in 1964. MW ees 5002613 (continued on page 20) «18 ee 2 ee UB ca 0s ns es afe 0 ee Oe Oe = SS - “poseeasenessee