gp es Oe ee ee ee WEAPONSTESTING OE 1880 continued 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 ¢ test in 1957 is almost three times the expected rate. PACE HEARING ON UJELANG - 1973 — = - we, 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?" "What the hell (continued on page 32) PegEP ee sy a ee en aeeeee 9002629 i “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.