aa A10 ‘ By Walter Pincus Tuardey, Mey 23,1978 Washington Post salt Writer Island will have to leave their g on BIThe 139 Marshallese livin TITE WASTIINGTON POST available at used the best instruments that time.” mnilttee Deal outlined to the subco examination how last month's medical had taken showed the Bikini residents bodies at radioactive cesium into their ted U.S. levels up to twice the accep population. standard for the general told Dr. Walter Wy zen, also of DOL, 139 men, the subcommittee that the have been women and children who past several living on Bikini for the active coco years and eating its radio have to nuts and other foods would ns far the undergy medical examinatio the rest of next year and perhaps of the radlotheir lives to keep track invested, active matter they have concen: It was the finding of hich ¢ sium and trations of radioactive lards—in strontium—above U.S. star ents last the bodies of the Bikini resid Interior offimonth that convinced moved. cials the people had to be ommittce Van Cleve told the subc {last month) that although “the tests diate dancer” do not reveal an imme should be the move from the aloli time necded made within 90 days—the to live and to pick a temporary place with alubuild plywood homes there minum roofs. commis: Adrian P. Winkel, hieh Territory, sioner of the US Trust would fy ta told the suhcommittee he tell the resi Bikinl next week and move and dedenis “the need fur the for a place termine their preferences to settle.” k Evans (DAt that point, Rep. Fran ion of what Coto.) raised the quest not want to would be done If they did leave Bikini. to require “We have no choice but responded. them to move,” Winkel d, howThe high commissioner adde to make ever, that it might be difficult use they the older people move beca still micht prefer to remain, own Two aging Marshallese who i Island major pieces of land on Bikin two family are patriarchs of the the peogroups that make up most of ple now living on the island. attended Marshall Islanders who mecting yesterday's subcommittee d convince were not sure Winkel coul them to Icave. was the (ustcative of the problem le on Bi tion was askéd why the peop when & quesexchange that took place after they kini kept eating coconuts dangerous had been warned they were r food and and supplicd with othe island. water from outside the ict repre Oscar DeBrum, the distr Territory govsentative of the Trust are treasured ernment said, “Coconuts d drink coco hy the people. They woul the warnnut milk even in the face of ings.” when the DeBrum then noted that month on medical team arrived last them the raBikini, the people offered of {rienddioactive coconuls as a sign ship. le or cut “either move the peop ki Juda,: The Kilf spokesman, Toma DeBrum sustice that 12 down the coconut trees,” reminded the subcommi the Bikinians; gested. 1946, a Navy officer told atoll so “it. approxithey had to leave their Representatives of the of man-, i people who could be used for the good : mately 400 furmer Bikin d wars.” kind and to end all worl told the subBikinians, now live on Kili Island The officer compared the elves as the thecommittce “we see ours children of Israel whom incompe- #49 the victims of bureaucratic . ." tence” into the Promised Land Kil group ly mora It was questioning by the “We are,” Juda said. “sad i four years ] waen about the safety of Bikin to the Children of Iscae akin the possibility ered throuch’ ago that first raised they left Egypt and wand levels might We left Bikint. that dangerous radiation the desert for 40 ycars. the ocean’ still exist on the island. have wandered through and were pre never return. At the time, U.S. officials for 32 years and we will e group to : pacing to retucn the entir to our Promised Land.” Bukini. Told r at Least 29 Years, Hill Bikinians Must Quit Island fo . the site of 23 U.S. nuclear weap kini hs and home atoli within three mont s De30 year not return for at least g from @& cause of radiation remainin test, & 1954 U. S. hydrogen bomb ommittes House Appropriations subc was told ye terday. from Xn earlier plan to move them her Island Bikini Istand to Eneu, anot subcomjn the atoll, was dropped, the 's coco mittee was told, because Eneu ity readnuts were showing radioactiv than govins five to six times higher iously ex: eri:ment scientists had prev pected. nt ofXva result, Interlor Departme could not ficials said yesterday, they ents would say where the Bikini resid eventually end up, g on Bikinl Jhe people now livin n after ® were the first ones to retur e En1969 determination by the Atomi atoll was erey Commission that the mination. safe from radiation conta had been From 1946 through 1968 it ons tests. Sidney Subcommittee Chairman s {rom the Yates (D-f1.) asked witnesse Fnergy, Departments of Interior and wed to 60 “Why were these people allo bark?” that “There was no hint in 1969 with coco there vould be @ problem ," he was nuts, vewetables and water , director told by Ruth G. Vaa Cleve torial Acof Interior's Office of Terri ... and vo foodstuff growing . tivities. y brapch, Joe Deal, of Energy's safet to test sald, “There were no coconuts We EY