x a N ’ t e oa . : t to. t :y OF ed yea Prim pg apm eye as t & ve UNFIT PARADISE —Jelodrik Jakeo strolis the beach at Bikini with Carlton, one of his seven children. They face Times pho Bictali fe! Ilancars“les Ageain to Reciati Continued from First Page From tre front porch of his conTete Becca Pouse f overlooxing Bikyni Togaes ree ood man recetne ion veers pel.cen cepariure and rewurn. There was mea starynud, muen privetion. Trere was shutuing from one alien tslay.t to another and another and yelanciuner. There was scattering ef famiv and fmends, disiccation. nearly to.n disruption of a hitherto quiet, untroubied wayoflife. “Mavbe ihere were some times when | was not unhappy,” he admitted. “But... every day I remembered B:ixim:. And every day I wanted to come tack because it is my homeland, because Bikim is a beautiful place.” He was auret, deferentially polite. Bui at last. in reply to the stranger's question, Andrew dropped the emo- tuunal veil sughtly. How. the stranger asked, will he react when he leaves Bikini once agcin and forever? “I will ween.” he said. “I will feel anger. . .] ~:l] not go. I will sit here. ‘They will have to carry me away.” He sad ne also believed some of the others would do the same as he, feel the same as he. And how. after all that had happened to nim and his peopie since geographically, teo. The :dea of Operauon Crossrcads was to see what the atomic bemo wowd do to a naval fieet, The three A-bombs of World War Il nada oecn expiocea in the New Mexico uesert and over the Japanese cies of Hirosnima and Nagasaki. Other sites were considered. But according to Crossrcads historian Neal Hines. “Bikimi fuifilled all the conditions of climate and isolation. It was... 2,000 miles west southwest of Honolulu... but it also was accessible. ... Its inhabitants, who then numbered 162, could be moved to anotheratoll.” (Most other sources say the population then was 166. Since then there has been a population explosion. Today §60 persons claim land rights in Bikini Atoll—140 now living on Bikini Isiand. 450 on Kili, and the others scattered throughout the Marshalls.) There was concern on the part of the U.S. fishing industry that the test blasts might hurt the mch commercial fishing grounds. There also were so many complaints from animal lovers that plans to use dogs as test ammals were canceled. But there 1s no recorded protest against removing the Bikinians from their ancestral homeland. “In retrospect ... you'd have to Say the removal was the ‘right of the conqueror,’ said Jim Winn, a trans- FP rmsANS _ow GF a,wy planted Kansan whois district attor- ‘You'd have to say the removal was the right of the conqueror.’ DM Yr eePSL a SSS nae 1946. aid ne feel now about the Americans? san nue sed perbane em “ne es eetien und by tre forr shat fre arp snaner owes oan ney of the Pacific Trust Territory's Marshall Islands District. “Our attitude must have been that we, at the cost of several thousand American lives; took the Marshails . took this whole area of the Pacific from the Japanese. And. . . part of it was the altitune, ‘Well, they (he Poumans! are cus hte hrown Pas pie was. od CATER Tee os Ae jack move ‘om off somey Are eo ee . eepene | oe te Ecoeowsin:Hadcanet Agees reee LG drik Jaeko checks on sap RADIOACTIVE BREW —Jela heen tonperdt ta tow direct vad cacanmn, that here wnera he iets te term- nt for seversl Cays to Frogcu mildiy alcoholic bevernae Althouch tre coccnuts ar