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receive additional money from the AEC.
When asked if there was
anything else they wanted to tell the Committee, the respondents
requested the following:
during the examination;
free transportation to hospitals;
food
their old houses should be rehabilitated or
new ones built; new water catchments should be constricted;
commensa-
tion should be settled and compensation should be given for pias, land,
and medical examinations.
Some 68 people vrom Utirik filled out questionaires and their answers-despite their different exposure--senerally followed that pattern of
the Rongelapese.
For example, to the question ‘"Nhen you get sick,
wnat do you think about?"
54 of the 68 responded “the ovomb,' and when
asked if they knew of someone who died as a result of the bomb, 42
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people answered with the
and
.
following names:
the question if they knew of people wno got sick from the
bomb included the name of
, wo, according to Pr. Conard did
not receive her thyroid cancer from fallout...
nanes
of people who were
listed as sick
in these who died from the bomb.
Furthermore, many of the
from the komb, also were
included
Lastly, some 82 Ronpelapese and
Utrrikese not exposed to the bomb filled out questionnaires, and their
answers Follow those of the exposed people “ith regard to many areas.
Fifty unexposed people claiin that they felt sick after returning to
their island, 41 people think of the bomb when they get sick, 59 worry
t
é
about petting sick in the future, and 63 worry that their children might
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get sick from the bomb in the future.
An amazing 72 people of 82 said
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