RESETTLEMENT OF PEOPLE 1978 concinued Peter Rosenblatt, agrees to renegotiate U.S. payments for use of Kwajalein, ending the occupation of the Mid-Corridor islands. APRIL Kwajalein: A Trust Territoy study, "Ebeye Redevelopment, Gugeegue and Carlson Developmenc'’ again reveals serious public heaith hazards on Ebeye: @ 8,000 people live on just 66 acres, giving it an extrapolated population density of 65,000 people per square mile (compared to Washington, D.C. with 12,400 per square mile); ®Most of the housing is substandard and deteriorating; @ 36% of the available work force is Bikini "within 75 to 90 days." JULY Kili: Department of Interior official John DeYoung describes Kili Is- land's school, community facilities and homes as being “awfully shabby." Be- cause Kili has been considered the Bikinians temporary home since 1948, Little money has been appropriated for upkeep and maintenance of houses, or for building permanent community facilities. SEPTEMBER Bikini: Trust Territory officials arrive at Bikini to re-evacuate the 139 people living on the atoll. unemployed; Bikini: The Northern Marshalls radiolo- under 1975 lawsuit, @® More chan 50% of the veopie are 14 vears old; @ The Ebeye Hospital is “in poor con- dition" and "equipment, supplies and staffing are also maior problems...; @ The electrical power plant “svstem is severely limited and results in numerous brownoucs....' Kwajalein: The American population on Kwajalein Island is estimared ac 3,000. The amenities provided for che Americans include air conditioned housing, 4 hospital staffed bv seven medical doctors, a high school, czennis and handball courts, swimming pools, parks, 23 goif course, bowling allev, teen club and free movies. €22100S nounces plans to move the people from Kwajalein: Ebeye has one basket bali court and a baseball field, and no other recreational facilities. to gain. access to Kwajalein, Marshallese must obtain a visitors pass issued in limited numbers‘for business purposes, such as going to the airport, bank or Trust Territory office. Bikini: Medical examinations reveal radiation levels in many of the 139 people on Bikini well above the U.S. maxi- mum ‘permissible’ level. MAY Bikini: Incerior Department officials describe the 75% increase in ra- dioactive cesium found in the people as “tneredible."” Interior Department an- Mees 31 gical survey, forced by the Bikinians' is finally begun, after the people are relocated from Bikini. Kwajalein: An annual Intertor Department report states: ‘No segregation... exists in the Trust Territory in either the public or the non-public schools. Children of any race, religion or color may attend any school...in the Trust Territory.’ Marshallese living on Ebeve cannot send their children to high school on Kwajalein, however, even though Ebeve doesn't have one. "On Culy 4th, 2976, only a matter of hours after 7.T.Acting High Commissioner Peter Coleman had fin- ished telling the United Nations Trusteeship Council Chere was no segregation at Kwajalein (a statement he would not dare make on Ebeye), the command of Kwajalein Missile Range celebrated the Americon Bicentennial by closing Kwajalein Island to any Marshallese .«-SO American Independence was celebrated at Kwajalein Atoll by enforcement of all out and total segregation.” Congress of Micronesia Representative Ataji Balos, July, 1976. (continued on page 33)