C: » -—-— AOL TOS v Wednesday, April 9,,1975 , ee SST 7 |] - Ff /é Honolulu Stor-Bulietin . w s - rr ad ww After20.Years oo, Meas FalloutEffects _ ‘orryIslanders and all those still jinthe ‘*From generation to generation we went with- wombat the time of the out worrying about any- “fallout. ‘ thing,’ said the mayor of tiny Rongelap Island in .° HE SAID the United Micronesia. ’ * States deported a Japanese. medical team that. Then in 1954 the United af States set off H-bomb ° *had been invited by the people to conduct physical Bravo on Bikini, and the radioactive fallout drifted examinations. Anjian would like to and fell jike snow on Ron’ geiap andits 86 residents. - send four or five of his peopte to Japanese docSince then, said Mayor s tars in Hiroshima to be Neison Angian, ‘We c ae. worry all the time. We- examined. . are worried about -our _-In.a petition to the q, lives and we don’t know Secretary General of the a what is happening.”’ United Nations and the Anjian said his people United Nations Trustee“have appealed time and . Ship Council, Anjian is .again to the United States € asking that: \ for adequate medical - *“: care. American doctors visit the island and exam™~ - ‘ine the people twice a . - year now rather than f once. é ¢ “THEY TELL us to eat coconut crab only three times a -week,”’ he said, 4 but do not explain why it “ cannot be eaten every ? e day. “We don't eatit at all now. We are afraid,” he Said. —Qualified doctors be” ~based on Rongelap to pro- vide daily medicalservice. : ' —Radiation experts and medical doctors, preferably including some from Hiroshima, survey Rongelap and issue individual diagnoses. —The Atomic Commission no longer be permitted to use the people of Rongelap and adjacent Utirik as ‘‘guinea pigs’’ for their bomb-related research. 4 ~— ca vive-today, Anjian said. - ONLY -35 of those exposed to the radiation sur- ~ Nelson Anjian 7’ He said the population -of Rongelap is now 200, '* =9-wand that they wantto stay ~~ «with the current adminis- <c_ tration of the Trust Terri- tory. *. . He said .money on Ron- .- gelap is noproblem. “‘In three -months we -can * make .20 to 25 ‘tonsof .. copra. “From the sale of copra, the people buy im‘ ported rice, flour, sugar * and kerosene.’’ They eatsecoconut, breadfruit, * pandanus,-fish and shell. fish, he said. “They say don't worry. Don't question the doctor,’’ he said, “‘and they give the people pills. We | don't know what for or ’ why.” . ' Anjian said 19 persons He said he has 9-chil . dren, and earns about $1,000 a year, which is , enough to support his wife and family. : ‘ -For 27 years he worked on Kwajalein as a carpen- hospitals of leukemia, “but we de't know why they die on ongelap.”’ Many of the people -of his island have had surZery for thyroid tumors, he said, including ail those that were children + native island a little over “ter, and returned to his _ have died in Mainiand , « , * . a year ago. . “Don’t talk to me about -” money,” hesaid. ‘ . “Money is nothing. My | life is important. . “The life of my people is important.’’