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 19 (continued on page 22) wr mer ee ee 1967 continued