1978 continued NOVEMBER Kwajalein: Ebeye Public Works Director, Ching Yee, writes to the High Commissioner requesting immediate action be taken to upgrade the rapidly deteriorating Ebeye sewer system. 1979 MAY Kwajalein: Trust Territory headquarters does not respond to the November request for help and the en- tire sewer system on Ebeye collapses. Senator Imada Kabua, a resident of Ebeye, reports "when I flush my toilet, waste water gushes into my sink.” Bikini: Representatives of the Bikinians travel to Hawaii and meet with state government officials to discuss tne pos- sibility of their relocating the entire Bikini community on the islane of Hawaii. Later, the Bikinians visit wake and Midway islands as well as other is- lands in the Marshalls seexing an alternative to Kili. The searcn proves unfruitful. JULY Kwajalein: Hundreds of Ywajalein Island, Mid-Corridor and Roi Namur lanc-~ owners occupy their off limits islands in the missile range, protesting unlivable conditions on Ebeve. MORE THAN 8,000 MARSHALLESE LIVE ON TINY 78-ACRE FBEYE ISLAND; KWAJALEIN ISLAND, THREE MILES AWAY, IS AT THE TOP OF THE PHOTO. —aiP- SEPTEMBER Kwajalein: Kwajalein Atel landowners sign a one-year Tease oyrees ment with the U.S. providing them with $9.9 million in compensaulion. Kwajalein: The Roi Namur nreople were relocated. As the occupation of Roi Namur begins, the Marshallese, Znewetak: The massive 370-rfovt wide concrete dome covering che plutonium contaminated soil and other debris 1S cuomaleted on Runit Island. Runit will be off lLimics forever. led bv Senators Imada Kabua and Jolle Lojkar, are confronted as they land on the beach by American security guards. Kabua is clubbed by a security guard and sustains a five-inch bruise on his ribs. No further incidents occur; the two week occupation ends when the U.S. Tagrees tc renegotiate the 1964 Kwajalein Island lease and to provide compensation to the peopie of Roi Namur. [No mp Bikini: After reviewing the results cf wothe aerial radiological survey of Bikini, an Interior Department representa- tive states: '...The new data reaffirmed chat 3ikini Islana could not be used ty the people of Bikini for at least the next 30 years and possibly the next 60 years....The :siand of Eneu must de piaced off lLimits...for at least another 20-25 vears.’ —~— 33 Enewetak: The DOE publishes (in both Marshallese and English) a full color information booklet entitled ‘The Enewetak Atoll Today,” abeut the radiological status of the atoll]. It is criticized by Marshallese from Jifferent islands as attempting to sinimize the potential hazards to the people if they return. Enewctak: Two Brookhaven Nationa! Laboratory scientists, Ors. Michaei Bender and Bertrand Brill, hired 5y Micronesian Legal Services to advise the Enewetak people, state in a meet ing with the Enewetakese that a return (continued on page 35) ~t Se me nt A Re ee given no compensation when they were