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luesdav, Seprember 13, 3983
not
bs a local ecumemecal planning
ecantmitiee
comprised
of
leaders
trom
othe
United
Uburch
and
othe
Catholic
Church.
Ihe purposes of the visit
were: (1) Lo assess the residual
radiation
problem
as an
JALUIT & WOTJE
environmental
and
health
haggard, (11) to study the social
Write or stop by the Journal office
military
presence;
(iii)
to
consult: with the churches of
the Marshalls regarding these
questions; and i+) to explore
with the churches, in the
and human cost of the US
P.O. Box 14 for more information.
context of the WCC's standing
concerns
for
peace
and
disarmament,
long-term
Strategies for mobilizing the
commitment of the churches
PRIDE BEFORE THE FALL
NUJ EO EKNANAIK ANOSCAR MOUR. _
THE NEWS GPSET. CG 45,
re.
Introduction
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DISTRIBUTORS FOR
Marshall Islands Journal
needed on
around the word on these
issues.
It should be noted thal «ile
the team inctuded an exper! on
radiation and tts effects, if did
presume
to
take
up
a
highly technical role. This was
essentially a church visitcuen
team sent as an expression of
chureh concern, willing to
listen to wl persons and preups
having
significant
«mes. sges
about Lhat situation. We .aw
our role to be interpre ive,
Teflective,
consultative
.nd
directed towards a cle«rer,
more helpful response on the
part of the churches.
Among ithe categories of
people we encountered were:
people displaced frum ‘neir
land, groups that expern ced
high levels of radioative
fallout,
people
living
in
“temporary’”’ homes or are
affected because their lard is
continually used for US jrresence
and
missile
tes'ing,
officials of the Marshall lJunds
Governments
and
‘her
political
leaders,
ch rch
leaders, a lawyer, me ical
doctor,
missionaries,
an
anthropologist,
US off-rtals
and
civilian
employees
at
Kwajalein
and
ie
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wo
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scientists from Lawrence av:
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Radiation
and
Relation
Questions
and
rm
Related
is
BEST TO CARAY
|
OUT HIS CHIEF'S
from
a
=~
Y one wt oa!
can tam Sammy Gates. i
~oulre the only
(2 ..ini
altered.
The effects of r-diation pervade their existenc: far
into self ngs
OMDEHS.
TO
their homeland
and Enewetok), or the groups
irradiated, but the tives ofall
Marshallese have been radi. ally
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~Kwe wot kwomaron kennan
iben Sammy Bates bwe en
wiakake.
beyond the readily obserable
and
4 eee
reported
health
and
environmental effects assiciated
with
the
extensive
US
nuclear testing program i: the
Marshalls. Today, in the L oad
sense, “‘radiation” is a ! asic,
pervading
reality
for
all
Marshallese people.
Indeed, a new culture, vi. -ab-
ulary and mythologyhaw
veloped around the radi.
question. Whenever thei
Continued p
de10n
5 a
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ee
chap 24
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fo awoke
the meat muoteng
with a hungover, but not the yPical
Yes , “you.
Go to
him, beg Fim...
Aet, kwe. Etal
iben, akwelab none...
Tlo etan town
in im wonmantok
ko an. . .bwe en
Jelok nonajiri ro
_ ilo Castletown
Webester dictiumary
.
f-
Muon ef such a state, rather the
Marshall Islands after-glaowh -1gover Music was more than Mutak. The local radio station 4 at
Playing @ slurred-down verion
of Scott Benjamin, announcing
In an almost vicious Mond ne
that the war in Chad hed boon
almost liberated by the Ey dias,
but was suddenly fronced on
by the Frogs
of had certain
deadlines lo mect and be, an
filing reports as soon us ay
contact lenses were operable
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BARRY GOT’ HIS
lives of not only the « les
oo"
BARRY EAR KEMAT AN MARGON EKKAR
NON ORDER KO AN CHIEF EO.
“TOBOL AR BLAZE SEIN AS
CLEANSING
BENTH ‘
“NEW COMPACT TO SO: .L
PROBLEMS,” and a lew offer
Naij kejeramotmoll
“hon Sammy Bates?
-
Eban wot em ban!
te beg from Damnyy
Bates? hol wey oéar
titel
i
7
upbeal artiles requested by ihe
CHA were on the agenda
ft was drawing clase to a on
pact tune, and the wland had
taken on an almost Christin as
like ar United) Nations f.asthe atmosphere.
United Sa
tions tthe? Pirthaps the he.
over Was worse Lhan b tinou,
later...
a
war ate fe el et
Radiation
Questions
In the 37 years since the .iom
bomb waa first ‘‘dropped’’ on
the Marshalis at Bikini, the
eee eee
Sates
.
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