Roger Ray, DPO, NV W. J. Stanley, Dir, PASO -5- The general conclusion I reached is that we made a good effort to portray the work of the U.S. Government but we will be very much outnumbered by critics and overwhelmed by the editor's cuts. ” LLNL/DOE Equipment at Bikini I asked for and received assurances from the Minister of Transportation, The Acting Chief Secretary, the Senator from Utirik (who accompanied the media people) and the crew of the Micro Chief, that they would not touch any of our equipment on Bikini or Enyu. General Conclusions 1. 2. The Rongelap Boycott was a “success” from the perverted point of view that many children did not see our doctors. Although the figures are not yet precise it appears we saw about 14 Rongelap children where we might have seen 100+ during a normal pediatrics mission. I did hear, however, that the President was angry at the decision and the Utirik and Bikini people and their elected leaders did not support the Rongelap Senator's position. I believe we have seen the last of this boycott as I think Senator Anjain knows he made a poor decision but he would have lost face to change in mid-stream. The mission was otherwise very successful. BNL was extremely busy on ' Majuro and saw many referrals from the hospital. 3. The DOE Representative/Majuro, Reynold deBrum, is so valuable to the program that it is hard to easily explain. I feel his work should be further recognized by DOE and H&N.(I will elaborate separately). 4. The Captain and crew were superb. The Engineer, Monroe Whitman, when not repairing burned up generators or installing Reynold's radio equipment was able, through his HAM radio work to get me a link to Ponape so I could set up a charter aircraft flight for H&N. The cook, Cisco, did his best job to date. . Visit by U.S. Congressional and DOI Staff I ran into Tom Dunmire at a restaurant in Majuro. He was heading up a staff group including Pat Krause of Rep. Burton's staff, Lori (last name unknown) from DOI, and Bill Robinson from Health and Human Services to tour the TTPI. I invited them to the ship and they came for breakfast on November 3. Dunmire seemed very concerned that the proposed Amendment 177 did not provide the womb to tomb medical care for the people specified in the Burton Bill. He didn't appear to want to hear my explanation as to why the $30+ million for general medical care was in that document, nor did he want to draw a distinction between "exposed" people and the people, for example, of Enewetak.