*t was too hot, they dumped into this lagoon. . .
of that copra was indeed rejected as being too hot.
rejected and dumped.
It is really important.
We know for
Not rejectedj
It entered our
fact that a lot
and burned, but
food chain.
fish eat the copra and fish liver around the Marshalls is a delicacy.
The
Kids gather
fish and grab the liver and chew on it, or heart or other parts of|the entrails."
ll.
Family Integration
The Secretary of Foreign Affairs maintains that different
delivery in the Marshalls, with obvious differential
stems of health
levels o
efficiency and
excellence, would hit at the very heart of the family and thus the
social fabric.
"We are saying that that would be so disruptive. . .--it woufd not sit sell
socially.
It would be difficult to justify people on one islafd going to this
hospital and the people of another island going to that one
- .
Morally,
ethically, it would be a slow destruction of this society. . ~PA family with a
father from Bikini and a mother from Mili, and adopted child.
-If you have a
Family that could conceivably have three or four people from
three or four
different atolls living in the one house, you go to see that doctdr
and go to that
medical facility because you are from here and you to see that on@
because you are
from there.
12.
.
Essentially, it doesn't work.
Simply doesn't."
|The Economic Aspects
In a special meeting with several government officials in the
senate chamber
on October 16, 1980, Dr. Jeton Anjain, who is the senator repregenting Rongelap
Atoll,
and
also
the Chairman
of the Committee on Appropriatipns,
concern that parallel systems of health delivery service would]
waste of money in this economy."
voiced his
be "a terrible
Another official said, “Our pepple would never
understand this way of doing things.
We don't think that the Bugton Bill should
be administered by an organization
or an entity other
than that which the
government utilizes for its general delivery of health services
13.
Disruption of Social Values and Customs: Adoption
“Adoptions are very, very common in our society, very common.
It is not
uncommon for a family of 8 or 9 to have at Teast one or two adogted children in
that family.
Not in the strict legal adoption sense that you are
Familiar with in
the United States, but where I have a sister who has a son and 9 say, ‘I'd like
your son to grow up with my family.’
She says, 'Fine.'
of my family, just as if he were my own.
Or vice versa.
The son becomes a member
I might[have a daughter
or a son, and a sister might want that son or daughter to live with her and become
her son or daughter.
same
household
acceptable. . .
form
11
to
15.
household. . .
to
That still happens today.
receive
help
from
Sending differen} members of the
different
systems
Jwould
not
be
You take the average household in Ebeye or Majurb--it is upwards
You
are
bound
to
have
multi-island
It could destroy the social fabric."
10
peogle
in
the
one