RESETTLEMENT OF PEOPLE
petition the Congress of Micronesia
(COM), soliciting aid in "righting a
grave injustice done’ by the U.S. government. Only 194 our of 1,470 MidCorridor landowners are eligible for
compensation, amounting to $40 a month.
The petition states: "Electric bills
and house rentals exceed $40 each month
and already some of us have been threat-
food within two weeks.
NOVEMBER 3 vjelang:
Tne supply ship
returns with food.
DECEMBER Ujelang: After receiving information on the Ujelang crisis, the
High Commissioner sets up a Rehabilitation Committee with one coordinator
in Saipan and one in Majuro.
ened with evicrion...Anyone bor since
the relocation is not considered eligi-
Ujelang: The people send thanks to
members of the Ebeye protestant chapel
ble for compensation...’
The Marshal-
lese poinc out that they were accustom
and to the Rongelap people for providing them with clothing during the cri$is on Ujelang.
ed to growing food on the "off-limits"
vjelang: A rat conrtrel srogram for Vie-
Kwajalein: The Congress o: Micronesia
responds with a resolution requesting
the Hien Commissioner to reopen negotiarions on the amount of compensation
islands, not possible on overcrowded
Ebeye.
-ang is set up using donations of £300
‘rom visiting Americans to pay a bounty
of 5¢ per rat to Ujelang people who
Sring in dead rats to be tallied.
for the Mid-Corridor people.
SEPTEMBER Ujelang: The Marshall Islands
vjeiang: The annual charity ¢rive colsection by Americans working on Enewetak is given to the Trust Territory
Nitijela (legislature) passes Resolution 16, addressed to the President of
the Uniced States, the Trusteeship
Council and others, concerning the
present conditions on Uielang and the
need for discussion to set a date for
the Ujelang people to retum to Enewetak.
zor Ujelang relief.
1968 JUNE 1 Ujelang: Five Ujelang leaders
petition the United Nations Trus-
teeship Council to help them set a date
zor the return of Enewetak Atoll to
zneir people.
OCTOBER vielang: The peopie report they
JUNE Ujelang: The people request that
have left only 14 pounds ct rice and
$150,000, yielding about $16 per person
3 weeks.
their Trust Fund be increased.
flour per person which will
[It is
edible pandanus.
annually.
Ufelang representa-
tives to the Nitijela say that if conditions "are not improved on Ujelang
Atoll by January 1969, they will all
Bikini: President Lyndon Johnson pro-
mises the 540 Bikinians living on Kili
and other islands a permanent return to
Bikini after the AEC concludes: "The
get on a ship,
come to Majuro and camp
in front of the administration building."
exposures to radiation thar would result from the repatriation of the Biki-
NOVEMBER 20 Ujelang: The people are out
ni people do not offer a significant
threat to their health and safety."
of flour, rice, sugar and other import-
The recenc measle and chicked foods.
en pox epidemic was very serious and
AUGUST Ujelang: The announcement that
ten deaths resulted.
Bikini will be returned to its people
The people are
still waiting for materials for repair
causes deep resentment among the Enewetakese, who protest because they also
and replacement of houses and community
buildings.
wish to return to their ancestral home.
5001210
Kwajalein: The Mid-Corridor landowners
a
last only
They have no breadfruit or
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