very busy and just don't bother to come for the examination. Many of them have changed their jobs and work as merchants, or own their own apartment buildings . One man, to his knowledge, is still fishing. No late effects have been noticed, such as thyroid nodules, but he did state that the change in liver function persisted for 12 or 13 years. the men have since married and have had normal, healthy children. Most of Aberrations in the chromosomes of the blood cells of the former fishermen, however, still persist. Rongelap and Utirik Initial Medical Teams The first assistance to the affected Marshallese and Americans was given by the medical department of the U. S. Naval Station at Kwajalein. In the meantime, the Commander of Joint Task Force Seven had requested the Defense Department and the AEC to provide care and make studies of the fallout victims. This group was organized in the United States jointly by two agencies: the AEC's Division of Biology and Medicine, and the Armed Forces Special Weapons Development Project of the Defense Department. Within eight days after the incident, a group had been organized and been fielded on Kwajalein. this group were Dr. E. P. Cronkite and Dr. Robert A. Within Conard, both from the United States Naval Medical Research Institute. Annual Reports One of the first reports published concerning the affected Marshallese and Americans came out in August, 1955, under the seal of Brookhaven National Laboratory, a research center connected with Associated Universities 89 [O14 b4b