COVINGTON Cancel mM. CRIS BON JOM T. SAME NZA CRPNCST w. JONNES 407600 BURLIN BBS SIxTEENTH STREET, N. WwW. HAART 1. SHNID ERMAN WILLIAM StamLeyY, JR, fCOwim 5, COKREN JAMES C. Mc KATY JOAN Ww, DOUGLAS COWIN mM, ZimmeR MAN JCROME aC ALR mAN MENAY FP. SAILC AM STANLEY L, TEMA COM ©. Hammes, UA. WASHINGTON, D.C. 20006 HAMILTON CAROTHERE a7. AANDOLP RH WILSON WESVER Ww. DUNN AN COGARA F, CraRAa, JA. WILLIAM mM. ALLEN David BISBELL ~OunN 8. 5ONES,4A, TELEPHONE (202) 452-6000 JOMN H.SCHAFER ALFROEO HW. MOSES YOHN LemOrNe ELLICOTT =. COWARD DUNACLECRGTAR, JR. SRICE mcaDOO CLAGETT JCHN §.nOCH PETCR BARTON HUTT RORBCRT Ore PAUL RFR. DUARE PHILI® A, STANSBURY CHARLES A. MILLER RICHARD A, BRADY ROBERT E.G'MALLEY MARK A.WEISS RUSSELL MW. CARPENTER, JR. "CM OLAS w. FELS THEODORE ~.. GARRETT Dana T. ACHERLY JOHN THOmMasS SMITH TD JOHN PF, RUPP OF COUNSEL t K PETER DO. TROCAOFF WESLEY 5S. WILLI4M5,JSR. STUART C. STOCK Twr PIO ar2-0008 TELEX: ab -533 OcrRis 0. BLATTER WiLUiAM O.FVER SON S. WILLIAM LIVINGSTON, JAL JOHN MM. MINE CHARLES «A. HORSHY w, CROSBY FOPER, UR, JAMES Hom cGLOTHLM COUNSEL JOHN SHERMAN COOPER ALLAN TOPOL MIRGINIA G. WATKIN RicCHaARO O.COP4KEN CHARLES LISTER ANOR Ew w. SINGER DAVIO Homie aAN HOWARD C,WESTwOOD “RECEIVED JOHN B.DENNISTON PETER J. NICKLES MICHAEL BOUDIN BInGHam B&B. LEVERICH MM. APPLEBAUM 4%, THOMAS AUSTE Rhy FOwTaINE C. BRADLEY EDWARD BURLING, UR. (202) 452-6340 HARRIS WEINSTEIN MICHAEL S. Be COANE JONATHAN ©. BLAKE CHARLES £.BUFFONM AC BERT ws. S4V¥LER BE fFOwaad BRUCE CavViID N. BROWN PAUL JU. TAGLIABUE WOWELL W, CLLISOM WRITER'S DIRECT DIAL NUMBER EUGENE 1. LAMBERT YOXoWN Van DER STAR A OWhMAN T. HaALYORSON,JIR. HARRY OY & CABLE: COVES —— EMLS 1GTON CFFIC WASHIN 1 April 21, 1 80 HAND DELIVERED. Mr. Wallace O. Green Acting Assistant Secretary of International and Territorial Affairs Department of the Interior Room 6151 ' 18th and C Streets, N.W. Washington, D.C. 20240 Dear Mr. Green: Mr. Anton A. deBrum, Foreign Secretary of ft he Marshall Islands, has asked me to forward to you the followested ing information, which Congressman Robert Duncan re from Secretary deBrum at the conclusion of his testi ony on April 2, 1980 before the House Appropriations Commit ee, During his testimony, Secretary deBrum related to th Committee the efforts of the Government of the Marshall Islands to determine the health consequences of previous rad ation exposure and residual radiation in the northern Mars all Islands left by the United States nuclear weapons te As Secretary deBrum explained in his testimony, shor after assuming office on May 1, 1979, the Government farshall Islands discovered extremely disturbing dat dicating serious medical abnormalities of a type oft connected to radiation exposure in people of atolls northern Marshall Islands which had been viewed by t United States as either uncontaminated by radioactiv out from the nuclear weapons testing or contaminated a low level of radiation as to be of no consequence. BEST COPY Ava LABLE