“Turtle and crabs from northernmost islands have always bedn people of Utirik island, Likiep and Wotje over the years. No one them that the level of radiation was higher than in the place collected by ever said to re they live. They continue to go there and kill birds, eat bird eggs, and everything else from that area. So food gathering is very important and eating h&bits are very important." 8. The School of Likiep "In Likiep during the testing, there was a school that had sthdents from all over the Marshalls. The Catholics had a school there, the Holy|Rosary school, several hundred children, not only from Likiep but from all over] fact, we find scars on girls from Namorik and Ailinglaplap. go to School? The answer: Oh, Likiep. scars. We as, Where did you And here they are carrying Ali these people should be tracked down. were in school when they gave the testing . . . Karlami was one. 9. thyroidectomy Cursory invegtigation on my part, I found at least half a dozen suspicious cases on non-Likieb of cancer. and there, in residents who fle died finally Angel, Guidel's wife, and several others. Construction crews; Cleanup crews who came later to Enewqtak and Bikini “You have to also remember that when Bikini was originally Eleaned up, the hazards of radiation were not quite as well known, quite as well understood, then as they are now. So, many of these guys may have been exposedjreally without anyone knowing how much and to what extent. The story of the welf is a classic. They had a well in Bikini that we, the government, dug to provide water to water the trees as they were bing planted. food, to clean The men were using it to coo their clothes and wash themselves with it as well. It was much, mech later, like six or seven years into the program, that the department of enefgy/AEC at that time, eventually decided that the water was hazardous and that th@ covered over. wel! should be In the meantime, we don't know how many guys had drunk the water or been exposed to it in other way, food, or in actually taking baths, this sort of thing." 10. The Oumping of Coora If anyone begins to suggest that the food really was not affected, we know it was because after the exposure of the northern Marshalls, when in those days we used to collect the copra from all over the islands, includingfsome copra from the Carolines, into Majuro and then a big ship would come in and take it from Majuro to Japan. They had people at the docks with geiger countars to check the copra out as it left the warehouse to go into the ship and it was a whole truckload to be dumped right into the lagoon. 17 mot uncommon for If the opemators felt that