1966 continued ditions. fense Nuclear Agency and the Air Force sponsor the Pacific Cratering Experi- ments (PACE) on Enewetak. More than TTTT tTTretia | Rongelap: Brookhaven scientists take Marshallese food items from Rongelap . (pandanus fruit and coconuts) to the U.S. to consume under laboratory con- 220 tons of explosives are brought to Enewetak for this series of tests which will simulate nuclear bomb blasts. After several weeks' study, they report: “The intake of strontium 90 over a seven day period was twenty DECEMBER Rongelap: A Japanese medical times higher than normal and that of cesium 137, sixty times higher than normal." survey team, including a thyroid specialist, comes to the Marshall Islands at the request of Marshallese leaders to conduct an “independent™ medical survey. The American Trust Territory 1968 APRIL Kwajalein: The Kwajalein Test Site is renamed the administration refuses the medical "Kwajalein Missile Range” (KMR). 1969 OCTOBER The Congress of Micronesia, representing all six Micronesian districts, begins negotiations with the United States to end the U.N. Trustee- ship in favor of a new political status. Pe: Ne 1970 Kwajalein: Two additional ra- tional as part of the Kiernan Re-Entry Measurements Site Island, combining dar (completed in siles re-entering phere. (KREMS) on Roi Namur with the TRADEX ra1963) to track misthe earth's atmos- APRIL Kwajalein: Illeginni Island in the Mid-Corridor is selected as the site for SPARTAN and SPRINT missile launches. The Illeginni facility is ‘ constructed and is controlled from Meck a Island 17 miles across the lagoon. . Konrad P. Kotrady, M.D.: 4 eee te SP PART OF KWAJALEIN ATOLL IS A MAJOR RADAR AND MISSILE TRACKING STATION. have no concern for the Marshali-~ lese and that it is not of any importance to their being at Kwajalein.” — team permi;:sion to travel to Rongelap and Utirik in what the administration terms as visa problems. The Japanese, 1971 SEPTEMBER Enewetak: The Dewe a ee ie pe pe pega ROI NAMUR ISLAND IN THE NORTHERN They 20) (continued on page 22) ' to test missile Systems. o “The Army's position was summed up to me one day when a highlevel command officer at Kwajalein remarked that the sole purpose of the Army at Kwajalein is TTP rr dars (ALCOR and ALTAIR) become opera- aR nn ee 2 es 0 es 2