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