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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of their

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