° ld] 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 From page | ~ Tell 7 ay rome tote wat bee tev Eos bat ~ Baen karejar (i a ‘Jel Selane ejjab jjab k konan aa ry ~ buromij tokelik. By 7 “Tos ed Crete 1 war Re /denay drore iolabiin * 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 Volume 14, Number 73 wo MARSHALL ISLANDS JOURNAL re Page 6 Ame-can scientists from Lawrence av: ermore National Labusataries. toed mee | 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 === ~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 .¢ 7 ee chap 24 “| 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 | 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 . SO IL