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. ' sidered nbncontaminated a t present .I1 d them in the south. En wet nk island. anchoring the southern quadrant of the vnst iringing reef. and hledren island. two dofs northward. were once bustling plac*s where a s ' many a s m.0~0scienrisU and SUP port personnel lived while exploding nuclear devices at the at0 missiles launched from Vandenberg Air ,Force Base in California. Nore in lw, grovnh retardation and thymid have developed in came active as the receivine m d for cones were aimed i t the 1w-n and dent i t wasnot considered lilvly that thrthyymid had received a sulficient pmved lob qvite wrong, thyraid injun-and its scqurlae dost of.,rsdioi&i!c (0 resokt i s Rmm Of M1h combat '-.' inginccrinsbattalion from Scnoiield ~ arnck sin Hawaii started arriving have, ,.Last week ID clean UP from the n o d - ' been the most serious late result of. ,Gzrt,' & ~ . yards of roil contaminated with plw one ol the few islands in the north eer M' the thyrdd. on the basis be sanitizing t h e atoll when th. ManhaU.~Islands atatistin, about operation reaches its peak by.th* perid, most of the stnrctures. then turn over to the Department o l Interior creating a n agricultural base and living facilities in a land-use plan worked out in agreement with the. be renovating faeililics on Emwetak which are l unit of absorbed Oi that atoll. the study said: "In the Wink population about 0.06 cases .. would be expected and one occurred: in vievof the low dose of radiaIt now dcvelopa. however. thatj more than one malignancy have occurred among the Utirik people. '> An ERDA health team h a s docu- ' mented three confirmed cases of >thyroid cancer; with still another >, unconfirmed. The Uti rir people re- \ atoll. left by boat last week to conduct the quaTt&y CXMI on Bikini ) ic. according ID Theodore Murawski. physician out here to visit Utiric." ) he said. "Dr. ?budsen i t not going 10 ' titiric on thu trip in part because It is against this background that ERDA and the Defense Nuclear Aglion appropriated by Congress. >Visitors to then to li arrive at ) Emwetak island. the largest of m e < e0 islands. that encircle the placid ) waters of a L g m n 17 miles across >and 23 mlles ,long in a Mnherly t; southerly axial T h e name "Enewe. j , .usage in past news stories. Although a pinprick on the map .\ the aton bunmas a world of its ow; I ' as cne searches the horizon. .blc to see only a few of t h e spores of islets. .In a corrugated tin buildin& the lioner. Army Col. Edgar Mixan Icda : briefing on (he plan to return,, '. I humidity held in check by trade '