*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