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FOR BIKINI WITH THOSE USED FOR ENEWETAK. | REPLIED THAT IN BOTH CASES
THE SAME INTERNATIONALLY ACCEPTED GUIDELINES HAD BEEN USED.
5. MLSC LAWYER ALLEN ASKED WHETHER ANY STATES OF THE UNION HAVE
ADOPTED MORE CONSERVATIVE STANDARDS THAN THOSE WE HAVE USED.
| REPLIED THAT | AM UNAWARE OF ANY MORE CONSERVATIVE STANDARDS,
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APPLICABLE TO THIS SITUATION, WHICH HAVE BEEN ADOPTED BY ANY STATE.
| THEN EXPLAINED THE “LONEST PRACTICABLE” CONCEPT AND ITS APPLICATION
TO BIKINI IN SUCH MATTERS AS CLEAN AGGREGATE, CRUSHED CORAL, ETS.
6. THERE ENSUED A SRIEF EXCHANGE WITH THE DISTAD REGARDING ECONOMIC
SUBSIDY OF RESETTLED BIKINIANS.
9. THE KILI SCRIBE, BOTH IMPASSIONED AND ARTICULATE, ANDO IN OUR IMPRESSION A MAN WITH A SUBSTANTIAL FOLLOWING, THEN SPOKE. HE WAS APPALLED,
HE SAID, THAT WE WOULD PRESENT UNCERTAINTIES ANO EXPECT THE PEOPLE OF
BIKINI TC MAKE THESE SERIOUS CHOICES FOR THEMSELVES. “IF BIKINI IS SAFE,
THEN LET A FEW IMPORTANT AMERICAN FAMILIES COVE AND LIVE AT BIKINI FOR
5 YEARS. {| WILL GIVE THEM MY LANO.” TO THIS DISTAD DEBRUM REPLIED
THAT NEITHER HE NOR THE US AGENCIES WERE TRYING TO FORCE PEOPLE TO
RETURN, BUT RATHER WERE COMMITTED TO RESPONDING TO THE WILL OF THE
PEOPLE IN HELPING THEM WORK TOWARD A SAFE RETURN IF THAT 1S THEIR
CHOICE.