REPOSITORY “Doé /‘PASO COLLECTION DotLiVV ~ gone, ios 2) 03 15°95 | AVAL 74 _LAS4 BIKA) ~Base SCCORRESpot FOLDER Fe12] 2s PATUZYUW RUHAWTACI98 2400149-UNUU--RHEGNVO RUHHIJIA RUWIALA, ZNR QUUUU P 2801442 AUG 75 FM USERDA/PASO HONO HI TO RHEGNVO/USERDA/NV ROGER R&Y ATTN R N EWMAN LAS VEGAS NV RUHHIJIA/USERDA SITE REPRESENTATIVE JOHNSTON ATOLL RUWJALA/ROGER RAY C/O AL SEYMOUR UNIV OF WASH SEATTLE WASH AE RT UNCLAS/N O N W D/NARR/W.0, STANLEY SENDS, QUOTE MICRONESIAN NEWS SERVICE REVISED: MAY )2, 1975 HOLD FOR 0730 DELIVERY, AUG 28 1975 DATE: 8/23/75 PACN AVFACENGCOM PEARL HARBOR HI SAMTEC VANDENPERG AFR CA oa All ot OF ROUTING DIRECTOR FCLO FCDN A-LGA KIRTLAND AFB NM CDRUSAGO MAKIMIN ATO JAPAN//TTPI-LNO// TT __ADM. OFFICER Tr7ADM. ASST. AMEMBASSY TOKYO ebROAR 2K BY UNCLAS BEST COPY AVAILABLE amy renee at, PAGE 2 RUHNWIAC198 UNCLAS COMTWELVE PASS INFO FOR AMB WILLIAMS __ oy ENGR v7, “SENDCOPY10: . SS NV HEN | SAL| | OTHER || SECSTATE PASS TO PEFT INT/SEC INTERIOR/DOTA OSN |OTHER AMEMPASSY CANPERRA FOR PAC. ISL, MONTHLY (BIKINI ISLANDERS RETURN TO HOME ISLAND DELAYED) SAIPAN, AUG.23 (MNS)---THE PLANNED RETURN IN \ ID“SEPTEYEER OF THE FIRST OFFICIAL CONTINGENT OF SOME 150 BIKINIANS TC THetk HOME ATOLL HAS PEEN POSTPONED TO PERMIT COMPLETE ANALYSIS AND EVALUATION OF TEE LATEST RADIOLOGICAL SURVFY, IT WAS CONDUCTED IT. JUNE 1975 BY THE ENERGY RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT ADMINISTRATION (ERDA) ON BIKINI ATOLL. PIKINI WAS THE SITE OF 23 NUCLEAR TESTS (INCLUDING SURFACE AND SUF-SURFACE FURSTS) IN THE PFERIO“P 194€-58, THE FIKINIANS WERE MOVED FROM PIKINI ATOLL RFEFORET TESTING EFEGAN, THEY WERT SURSEQUENTLY SETTLED TFMPORARILY ON KILI ISLAND, ALSO IN THE MARSHALLS, IN AUGUST, 1968, PRESIDENT JOHNSON ANNOUNCED That THE BIKINIANS WOULD FF ARLE TO RFTURN TO THEIR HOMELAND AT A LATOR TIME, HE DIRECTED THE DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERTIO®, DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE, AND TVE ATOMIC ENFRGY COMMISSION (NOW PART OF ERIA) TO COOPERATE IN PREPARING FOR THEIR RETURN, | par AMEMB CANBERRA AS