Local Guam residents remained uninformed while mainland readers learned of the discharge.

Evidence

In 1988, a nuclear submarine discharged radioactive reactor water in the harbor at Naval Base Guam. Navy officials never informed locals, who learned of the accident only after it was reported in a San Diego newspaper. — David Vine, Base Nation_ How U.S. Military Bases…, 420

Categorization

• XREF: Recalls the pattern from earlier chapters of host-community information asymmetry (e.g., Okinawa and the mainland press).
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — David Vine, Base Nation_ How U.S. Military Bases…, 420