104 . for injuries sustained. add. DUNHAM: DASA 2019-2 This has made them very happy, I might What do they buy with that money? CONARD: Motor boats, things that they get cut of the SearsRoebuck Catalogue and other things. We're just hoping that they are going to spend it wisely. So far they haven't gone too wild with the spending. , DUNHAM: Does each one have an account? CONARD: The Bank of America came in there and they have deposited their money there in most cases. Ina few cases they wouldn't put their money in the bank, but a lot of them are living off the interest of their bank accounts. WOLFE: When we tried to go out there with the ecological group the Commissioner was very greatly disturbed for fear we would break up their way of life. I don't know of any better way to break it up than to give each one of them $11,000 to buy motor boats and things like that. CONARD: It was being broken up before that, though. The onsiaught of Western civilization was rapidly coming into these islands, and in the other islands it's also evident—not just in Rongelap, where they have this money. You can see signs of advancing changes due to American influence alli the time. I would now like to discuss the acute effects of exposure on these people; first, the whole-body gamma penetrating radiation effects. Just to refresh your minds,- you will remember that human beings respond with various syndromes of effects related tc dose reccived. (See Figure 7.) The most acute syndrome, of course, is called the central nervous system syndrome, as depicted in th: upper left-hand part, associated with doses greater than 3000 and 4609 rads. Predominantly one sees ataxia and disorientation, signs of brain involvement, and life is, indeed, very short for these people. Then with smaller exposure (abovs about 1000 or 1500 rads) we have the gastrointestinal syndrome, so named because signs of nausea, vomiting, diarrhea and dehydration reiated tothe gastro-intestinal tract dominate, and the individual usually dies within a matter of four to nine days from acute dehydration and other effects. The bone marrow syndrome