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:TION Rou TIN Iz 101 USA EC/ ENIW ETOK FOR WALTER NERVIK NCLAS / PLANNED VISIT WITH DLSTAD DEBRUM AT MAJURO HANGED TO KWAJALl=N AT HIS REQU~T SINCE HE WAS ISITING KWAJ ENROU TE FROM A BIKINI INSPECTION AND LANNED TO VISIT RONGELAP FOR FUNERAL. DE23RU14 ARRI~ ED WEDNESDAY NIGHT ACCOMPANIED BY ATTORNEY HAMLE ,ARRY. THURSDAY MORNING WE THREE MET FOR ABOUT AN :OUR, THEN WERE JOINED FIRST BY MICRONES~N CONGRESS IAN ATAJI BALOS AND LATER BY UJELANG MAGISTRATE MITH GIDEON AND COUNCILMAN JOIIN EBREM. ‘HE ONLY REAL QUESTXON BARRY AND BALOS HAD WAS {HETHER IN FACT PACE HAS SUSPENDED ALL ACTXVITIH. 5ARRY BELIEVED ME BUT SAID THAT HE DID NOT EXPECT AITCHELL TO BELIEVE UNTIL HE OR ONE OF HIS ASSOCIATES ;EES FOR HIh4SELF. I URGED HIM TO DO SO AND SAID THAT N %%40 1 r TYPED NAME AND TITL REPLACES EDITION OF I MAY 65 WHICH MAY.f?~ USED
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HE COULD AND WOULD, I WOULD ATTIZMPT TO GET AN RALLY). UNFORTUNATELY, THE SAME SUBJECT HAD 13EEN AT ISSUE IN THE COURTS IN HAWAII, WITH DOD SEEKING A PRO1 TECTIVE INJUNCTION, THE TERMS Ol? THE COURT RESOLUTION OI? THAT ISSUE hlADE OUR VISIT INADVISABLE, AND THE MATTER WAS DROPPED. WE DID, HOWEVER, DECIDE THAT A VISIT TO UJ ELANG WOULD BE CONSTRUCTIVE. THAT SEEMED POSSIBLE SINCE A NAVY i AMPHIBXAN FROM GUAM WAS ARRIVING KWAJ AND WAS PLACED AT OUR DISPOSAL. THE TRIP, WHICH WE PLANNED FOR MON1 CELLED DUE FIRST OF ALL TO LIMITED PASSENGER CAPACITY I (4) AND SECONDLY TO CONFLICT WITH RONGELAP FUNERAL WE HAD A CONSTRUCTIVE FRIDAY MEETING WITH BARRY AND BALOS, DEBRUM AND PETE COLEMAN TO HEAR LCDR. BROWN I AND EARL GILMORE DESCRIBE THEIR Activities AND DISASSOCIATE THEMSELVES FROM PACE, AGAIN I THINK BARRY
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wAS COMPLETELY SATISFIED, THOUGH HE PRESSED PRETTY HARD ON A DATE FOR REPOPULATION AND FOR AN AGREEMENT THAT IT WOULD BE ALL RIGHT TO REINHA131T JAPTAN IN ADVANCE OF THE ALL CLEAR. WE OF COURSE MADE NO COMMITMENTS ALTHOUGH I DID VENTURE A PERSONAL OPINION THAT FROM A RAD1OLOGICAL STANDPOINT, ONCE THE FOOD CHAIN GUESTIONS ARE ANSWERED IT WOIJ LD SEEM FEASI13LE TO BRING SOME PEOPLE TO JAPTAN. I DID, HOWEVER, OBSERVE THAT THE QUESTION OF WHETHER PARTIAL REPOPULu4TION CONCURRENT WITH CLEANUP WOULD BE MANAGEABLE 1 ATELY SMITH GIDEON AND E13REM MXSSED THE BOAT THAT MORNING FROM EBEYE. HOWEVER, KNOWING THAT WE WOULD MEET LATER AT UJELANG, W E PROCEEDED WITHOUT THEM. THE IvU3GISTRATE HAD HIS 17’AW.ILY WITH HIM AXD ALL WERE ABOARD THE TRUST TERRITORY VESSEL PALAU ISLANDER DOCKED AT EBEYE. I VISITED THEM FRIDAY Afternoon AND WE ALL VISITED THEM SUNDAY AFTER CANCELLING THE UJ ELANG TRIP.