day medical care and treatment provided by the Medical Service of the
Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands (TTPI).
They do not distin-
guish between the annual diagnostic-epidemiologic purposes of the
Medical Survey team and the TTPI medical support which is limited by
unusually severe logistic problems.
This and other complaints
(see
below) should be viewed in the context of the uncertain political
situetion presently existing in the Trust Territory.
It is the
policy of the U.S. Government to essist the Micronesians in developing a democratic self-government.
A two-house Congressional system
has been operative since 1964 and beginning in October 199 there
have been six rounds of talks aiming at further political autonomy
vis-a-vis the United States.
The people of the Trust Territory have
aligned themselves into six island (atoll) groups and are competing
for leadership.
The Marshall Island group believes it has extra-
ordinary claims on the United States because only they have suffered
the dislocations due to tests and other military purposes.
In August 1971, Mr. Ataji Balos, Representative of the Marshall
Islands to the Micronesian Congress, went to Hiroshima, Japan, to
attend the Anti A-and H-Bomb Ceremonies on August 6 to 10.
Acting
apparently as a Congressman in behalf of his Marshallese constituents,
he invited the Gensuiken, the radical left Socialist party, to send a
team of physicians expert in radiation effects to the Marshall Islands
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