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PROPOSED ANNOUNCEMENT AND RESPONSES TO EWQUIRIES OM FIVE MARSHALLESE
PEOPLE WHO HAVE THYROID MODULES
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Attached for your approval are a proposed public announcement and responses
to inquiries en circumstances surreunding five new cases ef thyreid acdules
detected in the Marshallese people during the March, 1966, medical survey.
Two apcoming events are likely te receive news medie attentica:
1. the arrivel, this wonth, ef five Rongelap people in this ceuntry
fer clinical examination and possibie surgery; and
2. the appearance of an article, in June, fe the Bes Roglend Joursal
of Medicine en the latest findings by Dr. BR. A. Conard of
BEST COPY MAVAILABLE
We recoamand that the announcement be approved for issuance by Brookhaven
National Laboratery just before the arrival ef the five Marshallese. The
questions and answers are for use to the extent necessary in response to
telephone inguiry only, er for guidance before daterview with aedia representatives.
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