FIFTH CONGRESS OF MICRONESIA
‘FIRST REGULAR SESSION, 1973
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SENATE JOINT RESOLUTION NO. 36
A SENATE JOINT RESOLUTION
Expressing the sorrow and sympathy of the Congress of Micronesia to the
family and friends of
for his untimely and unwarranted and =
irreplaceable loss.
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WHEREAS, on March 1, 1954, Joint Task Force Seven of the United
States of America detonated a thermonuclear device,
code-named Bravo,
on Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands District; and
WHEREAS, this 15-megaton weapon of war caused an unprecedented
radioactive fallout over 7,000 square miles of the Pacific,
showering
dangerous radioactive particles on the inhabited atolls of Ailinginae
Rongelap, Rongerik, and Utirik; and
WHEREAS, on the island of Rongelap at that time were 64 human
beings, including then Magistrate
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male baby named
WHEREAS,
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and his one year old
; and
since that time numerous cases of radiation-induced
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growth retardation and thyroid disorders have been diagnosed and
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treated as a result of annual surveys by a medical
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to the United States Atomic Energy Commission; and
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"WHEREAS,
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this same medical team last September upon examining
found indications of a serious blood disorder and took
him to the United States for further examination;
WHEREAS,
and
, nineteen years old, died on November 15,
' 1972, of pneumonia while undergoing treatment for acute myelogenous
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leukemia at a hospital in the National Institute
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Rethesda, Maryland; now, therefore,
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team under contract
of Health at
BE IT RESOLVED by the Senate of the Fifth Congress of Micronesia,
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