bho LOS ANGELES TIPE MONDAY, JULY 4, 1977 ‘people okBical:ationalowed by: ‘thetUSgovernmentsig--return:“toe theiz?atolk’ares'absorbing#radiatio heatly:two!decades: after:‘the!‘United. cesar:Eanes Ki - gration:packstarthesatole: hegarntive:: yeats-aga-have?‘shown’:also: that" the: soiand' Waterat:Biking:‘contain’ corte: centrations?of2‘Strontium “90,7cesium: 13%andplutoonim’239 and:240:which: aré:readilyabsorbed”by ” vegetation: A! ‘3 During. ‘the*tesettlemen ; the:‘population: at.Bikintclimbed to. as: high as 85. persons,.‘butiitchas since: declined to about60.44 es GR Commission,¢nity ‘ThepeopleofBikinisicieaeotene ey a‘teinsyancestralJands:SrYears Twenty=ithree:.huclenteblssts AW ere’ Setoffat:BikinkAtol:‘during’Lhe. test~ ing program,including, ine first. ne drogen bomb.” Be fs We thotight wewould be backin’a. year, probably:two?recalléd“Jamore' Ailap-who:was? 38Wher: the! Bikintpeople «weremoved"in-the-first’ of: three: unsatisfactory:‘reseltlement:ef= forts: Now:‘Aijtap: refers.to-himself as a: pets r=displaced '. “They Havebeert movieaftthelis land: beeausé+.ofthe:concernt,.*“said: NathanNoté;-whorasBikini's“scribes 2 THe! islanders‘Ropes were raised. in is the. second highest: native:-official. 1968ivhen'* Président‘Lyndon’:Be on theisland. } Se PES PS “This: is: nob. thesproudest moment! atall was: safe: foi: human habitation:! in U.S. history,” said one officialwith: - yThereturn startedlater, but serious: the federal| Boergy’ Research: and » questions : have sbeen- taised | since’. v ee ‘ :*-about levels of radiation at. the former, ? ‘ - test site:. J ye! * Samples: of bloodrand: mine“fron the first-residents. to return to Bikini, as well'as from workers involved im > theresettlement’ program, show:the’ | people’.are: absorbing. radiation, ‘al~. though: the amount:‘and its. signifi-* cance-arein dispute. i072 he “Notwithstanding?“what!‘anyone: says about-whetheror not these lev—-' els are scientifically’significant,they J are: not reassuring,” said George M: Allen; an attorney"who representsthe _ people of BildnL*’ 2 A. study published this Januaryby" Please ‘Lurn fo Paze 17, Col. 1 eee 380 PAGE l OF 4 PAGES