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‘From generation to “and all those. still in the
wombat ‘the time of the «based on Rongelap to pro- . ;. generation we went -with_. wide daily medical servout worrying about any- ‘fallout.
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“medical doctors, prefer- .
“Then in 1954 the United . nese. -medical:team that.
ably including some from |
States set dff H-bomb ‘had been “invited by ‘the © -Hiroshima, survey Ronpeople.to conduct physical
Bravo on Bikini, and the
- gpelap and issue individual
examinations.
- yadioactive fallout drifted
Anjian, would like to” diagnoses.
and fell like snow on Ron-
gelap and‘its 86 residents.
- send four or five of his
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‘Since then, said Mayor
--Nelson Angian, “*We
worry all the time. We
are worried about our
lives and we don’t know
peopte to Japanese doctors in- Hiroshima to be
examined.
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ted to use the people of |
Rongelap and adjacent
Utirik as ‘‘guinea pigs”
visit the island and exam‘ine the people twice a
-year now rather than
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He said money on Ronc gelap is no problem.., “In
> three months we ‘can
\ make 20 to 25‘tons of
* copra. “From the sale of
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He said he has 9 chil- ’
\ dren, and earns about
a year, which is
ro $1,000
enough to support his wife —
-and family.
¢ -For 27 years he worked
on Kwajalein as a carpen“ter, and returned to his
*
“but we don’t know why .-
ad
native island a tittle over
a year ago.
“Don't talk to me about
a money,” he said.
“Money is nothing. My
life is important,
\ his island have had surtumors,
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“he said, including all
_these that were children’
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. they die on Rongelap."”
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breadfruit,
coconut,
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. “We don't eat it, at all
- now. We are afraid,’’ he
. Said.
“They say“don't WOrry. Don’t question the doc. tor,’ "he said, “and they’,
give the people pills. We _ don't know what for or
“why.” .
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but do not explain why it |
cannot- be eaten every
day.
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times a -week,"' he said,
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In.a petition to. the
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Secretary General ofthe . for their bomb-related re~
what is happening."'
United Nations and the © search.
Anjian said his people
“-vive today, Anjian said.
United Nations Trustee“have appealed time and — ship Council, Anjianvis . -~ ONLY 135 of those ex“'He said the population
Again to the United States . asking that:
poo. posed: to: the fadiation Sur- -of- Rongelap is now 200,
‘for: adequate medical ...
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