Dr. James L. Liverman
April 25
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The number of children of Rongelap expos
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150 or more.
We do not have a listing of children
on the relative population size
this may be as many as 300 or more.
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This would give us a total of 450
children of exposed at present - not a "vary small number" as Senator Borja
Furthermore,
this number is increasing steadily.
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If this number of childran were
it would increase the time and scose
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“control children were added to the
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specialist-physicians on our survey is
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One might argue that future generations are also susceptible to genetic
This would result in thousands of additior.ai
affects and should be included.
children in a few years.
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IL foresee trouble even with the establishment of our “hard core" control
population of 150 Rongelap people.
Already people are wanting to be addec
to that list to receive the benefits.
[If the children of exposed are acdec
there will probably be further discontent since the parents of unexsosed
children would want the same benefits for their chil a
I believe that we snould stat
duly
compensated.
Perhaps in order to be complately unbiased in this de Gisi
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get the opinions of several vell-known nuwan geneticists. If I can be o
any further help please let me know.
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Sincerely,
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Robert 4. Conard, M.D.
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