Nixihatlrae
Konald & Boekel
401950
Litormey at!Law
PUGH Welehire BoulevardSite HOG
Bevernty Hills, Calilernia GILLS
(213) 655-0242 +» 655-0243
October
Energy,
19,
1977
Research & Development Administration
c/o Department of Energy
Washington, D.C.
20545
Re: Medical treatment
Peopie of Utirik - victims of atomic radiation
Dear Sirs;
This office has just received a communication from
our clients on Utirik Atoll indicating that they were
not visited by the ERDA Quarterly Medical Survey Team
during the June or September scheduled surveys.
Neither the people of Utirik, nor this office were
given any notice or reasons for cancellation of these
visits. After the extreme hardships that these people
have already incurred over the past 23 years,
of omission is astonishing.
this kind
This office demands an ex-
planation for the cancellation of the June and September
surveys.
The people of Utirik desperately need these medical
surveys.
During the March survey,
played symptoms of thyroid tumors.
MS
four more residents dis-
This office is quite