The Community Development
some time after the typhoon.
Project
on Kili was
It was not continued
terminatea
by the
community as far as F know.
Attempts by the Administration to obtain another location
for the displaced Bikinians have been abortive.
The economic
difficulties of the former Bikini people
were alleviated when they were paid the
the Government
interest
in exchange for the use
from the
is a quaranteed
trust
fund,
of Bikini Atoll.
into which
income which n2lps the
will become less
sum of $325,000 by
significant as
The
$300,000 was placed
local
economy.
the population
This
increases,
ag
4t has since the fund was established in 1956.
Present Attitudes Toward Kili
The attitudes of Magistrate Juda,
community,
and
of other leading people of the
whom I talked on Majuro,
witn
the Bikini Atoll
They
there
still
13 not
the leader of the Kilt
say
enough
Kwajalein and Ebeye in connection
Survey,
that Kili
seemed
to be unchanged.
is no good,
food there,
and the
it
whom I
interviewed
return to Bikini to live.
the
survey and
being allowed
what
stated
is
like.
tions wnich were made over a decade ago are
of the people
community with
that
like a prison,
The
still made.
tney wanted
All
to
They were all very anxious about
the results would be in terms
to return to Bikini or not.
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same objec-
of their