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LOS ANGELES T.
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MONDAY,
JULY
4,
1977
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“Rongerik-is-miichmore, peautifuls
eangyegert) and istatricher2island.thanBikini;a
gusaid®atl -account inthe Los Angeles:
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larger’.thanBikini:and-roughly..trian=
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residents:would:not:at. theEenomy
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perTimes,,“Rongeérikisaboutthree.times;:
“3 aximes as. large:as.ee!00,Bikinihad
But:‘the people.ofBikini.Khew bet!
Oe Bikini had’ 26 ‘islands‘and 2.32:
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i tneteattoney:Ganges “Square miles’ of. land;:while:Rongesile”
‘during.‘the-dast’‘Yeatsthere: has:been
len? Thisdispersion:hesaid,has.made: ‘had10 islands with 0.‘AT,Square. miles’;
itt:extremely"difficult: for. them: to ‘of, Jand.. There: was-a: reason, thatily:
Genesis: “They: were:told*not’‘toreat:
“fheirhardshins-istarted.“with!thes
simostia:‘replay:‘of:the:first?book‘of:
i
thes,“pandanus*. anid'ébreadtruit,=put:
some-“of the people: are:‘eating:these’
rathat:“they: vere,
jasuiiinhabited:
ios
adrhanyespecies of heninhehaggoon.
were*unaccounlably
toxics
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ne
great,” cad Oscar®deBrum::‘adminis7 de
trator for the TrusteTerritory’sSs: Mar:
‘shall Islands district?
“the.‘people: of Bikini syere.“told their?
erre"ead ed aboard 2 ‘Navy bad ing.ty
‘atollwas needed by scientists forex-" “craft vontMarch.7,.1946,:‘taking.with.
rdht i
“Unlike the $20 million.cleanuppros
; “periments. With, nuclear. devices: that. “them:tpersonal’ possessions; pandanus.
“Lavould: besfor-"'thegeod’ ofmankind” thatch: panels and:outrigger. canoes.,
aram and:-$12° million:‘Teseltlement
“apndto endall wars.)
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lure. sJamore. Aitap said. they had been giv-!
rogram: that:Congress “authorized<
‘last year for the people.‘of Enewelak;.a onemaillary govertor told neseenabouta week,t6pac. #
as
“another atollthat was heavily radiat~: sple;:who were deeply committed‘to
“Christianity;
that-theywere
like
“the
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Relocation» was accomplished)
“edfrom weapons.-lesting,.the program. . children of Israel'who the Lordsaved“:*swittly’and withtlittie planning,”” said!
for the people ®of BikingHaseen,ab - 2 from-their enemy: and led ‘trom. ine: ~-Kiste:“As soon as the people began to’:
est, piecemeal. *adff
PSI RS Promised:Land.”. igtcc tas abatd - Sudsist.on.Jocal. foods,-it became ap-+'
rhe resetllemiontproceedin Sort.fh. Navy: press releases: and news.res! .,. parent thal. Rongerik's resources had::
‘of a palchwork, .way,sSaid: Raysof:sports praised-the atoll that the: people;~ been:greatly overestimated ander
iY
ERDA.:"Never, as-far as I’m aware,. were. being shifted:to, Rongerik?‘ane: in fact, inadequatesicnsiy 22; ry
did an agency of the-.United States: go+ ~yninhabite‘a: atolt: about;120)“miles 0. ‘Tn 1947-2 Navy pched af investiga2’
over to Congress and Present xtotal : the east of Bikinis i s-
Mt
* tion foundthepeople-were.Seriously;
‘package for a returns)! fee 2ot “Pheenatives are delighteilPonthus”. undernourished andlow on fresh wa--.
yen. fedéralfofficials.“admit; ‘ “Siastc: about the: atomicbomb, which ‘s ter..The Trust /Tcrvitory administra
however,that the plight of the people ..
already. has brought tnem prosperity":tion-offered. to relocate them on Iii?
of pikini is more serious than the dis-:' an anew.promisiniuture, said one ,_ an island, rather than an atoll, 500.
placed people olbnewelak;.who were:account in a-Honoluiu newspaper.nom rites to the souta. The Bikini council,
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