the civilians. A high commissioner * In March, 1948. they were moved to partmentof Interior. Kili was without question better than Rongenk. But it also was smail } and, worse yet, it had no lagoon. The : é island wasconstantly pounded by tne Paerfic. Fisning was far more duificult than at Bikim. Supply ships could * neither land food nor take away ccopr —dried coconut, the only cash crop— for months at a ume because of the heavy surf. Sometimes six months passed before a ship couid unload. In an attempt to reheve the 1s0lation, the Navy turned over a 40-foot power whaleboat to the cikimans. It sank in high seas in 1951. In the same year, the Navy turned over administration of Micronesia— “and the problemsof the Bixinians—lo After that. according to Tobin. the heart seemed Lo go out of the exiles Qn March 1, 1954, test shot Bravo an H-bomd 750 times more powerful than the first atom:c bomb, had been not seem at the ume to have suffered permanent harm. No one seems to know what happened to the AmeniPlease Turn to Page 7, Col. 1 sate 2 Oe te ny. : i ' 2 “4 “- ‘ -f “ya “of “4 . t : ' + t : ' “pe ’ . . . 7 "ou . .. " . . eu : - 1 ” “ae . et. *, wk 8 ’ 4 . ‘ ty ' r . ’ ny - ae -: ; ‘ ‘ ” ' . * o - , t i x v, r ‘ oa ‘fs : ve ‘ oy . . te - . . , re . . re ‘ ' ’ . . y Le ' 4 1 ‘ ‘ , 4 . . ‘ ’ * Ay s ‘ . ‘ TF * ’ +, a" oY aot . ‘ ac . . :: : : ' ' og : ‘ 5 , we * 1 eo . . a‘ Ye . . t f ’ o 2, te el 1 : " - “y a . . . ‘a ' ! . : . “se 4 nay ’ vee . 7 . . e- can : \ - ny rt . 7? . oe : . aay aa ory . aan “ Ow Ar } oa . ‘ : my tat ‘ in ran . 7 ” . ‘ se * topos ‘ . 4 : noe of fy te 44, uw te So ‘. 1 - 1 .‘ ee . © t 4 / : e ‘ . . - + . . Btw ate “4 a te, raat 5 y , : my : ' ‘ . ' . . 1 . SCE wT ee . “ a?fy o _ oO . ’ *, 4 o- 4 . ~ wef :> f . tee: ff " 1 ‘ at ae te vote a ’ 1 c TR of ye . hoe wet e nd .f¥ et, ¢ my -‘ ‘¢ 1 : . ' ' ’ 1 a . . yt. ‘ : . om a . “fr. ’ wr . e « so at see- sae . or . Mos oe . ’ 4 ” ‘ . = is uo ‘ ‘ ° , so we t ' , ¥ ' '' ‘ .. .' . oo” ¥ * . *, : ‘ , ‘ . “t ” . : :. hae veyat nb . + 7 t ~ 1 . a ry hospitals almost immediately, aid - ~— . * - places fluttered down like snowflakes. boat. destroyed the hew agncultural ‘ a Rongelap. Rongérik and Utirik atolls. all inhabited by Marshallese and U.S. mulitary personnel, were in the path of the fallout, which in some projects and wrecked the Jalut colo- 9 oa . of radioactive particles drifting in the wrong direction, across BikimIsland and beyond. The piume stretchedt! 240 miles long and 40 mules wide. over an area far outside the restricted dangerzone. . Twenty-eight Americans, 244 Marshallese and—although 1t was not known until someume later—23 crewmen of the Japanese fishing buat Fukurvu Maru (Lucky Dragon) were seriously wramated. One crewman died of complicauons. The rest spent a year in hospitais. The Americans and the Marshallese. evacuated and treated in muita- —.y “apne An unpredicted wind shift after the blast had sent the 20-miie-high cloud Matters did not improve right away. But under pressure from the United Nations, the high commussioner pushed a community development plan to improve agriculture on Kuli, In addiuon, the Trust Territory turned over a copra trade boat to provide a transportation link to Jaluit Atoll, where a colony of Bikimans had been established as part of the community development provect. At first the scheme prospered. moraie improved ana some thought the Bikimans might learn to adiust to Auii. Then, late in 1957, and early the next year. typhcons sank the copra a tent camp at Kwajalein. In Septemver, the Bikinians voted to resettle on Kili, and in November, they were finally settled on Kili and began building a new and bigger village than they had had on Bikin.. b exploded at Bikini with tragie results. was appointed by the President to work With and through the U.S. De- yn abetdns teiard a though he admitted it had many disadvantages, as the best available place to relocate the Bikinians. thao ales. oa ee leas .. '