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not pursued since it concerned administrative policy of the
Trust Territory. Some of the other complaints concerned
poisoning by fish (an old complaint). They claim that
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certain fish have a black spot in their ebdomen which they i
believe is related to radioactivity and causes the sickness.
They are still disgruntled that they are not allowed to eat |
the coconut crabs which is forbidden because of the high
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concentration of Strontium9?. They complained that the
cocomuts were small and referred to certain changes in the }
coconut and pandanus trees which they believe are due to
fellout. There was a complaint that I had not heard before,
that several people had gotten inflemmation and blistering of the mouth from eating arrowroot flour. This latter
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compleint was probably due to impropé+ preparation of the
flour which is knot to produce sucH symptoms.
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mention of the silt agaihst the United States Govermient.
(Dr. Macdonald had showed ine a report of the United Nations;
team's visit to Rongelap. ‘The complaints voiced to this
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group were about the seme as described above.)"
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