RESETTLEMENT OF PEOPLE 198] JANUARY Kwajalein: U.S. and Marshall Islands government negotiators make pub- lic an agreement drafted as part of the Free Association Compact which will give the U.S. “free acce@a to and unrestricted control” of the Kwajalein Missile Range for 30 years, with 100 year authority for military "denial" (the right to foreclose access to Kwajalein cto any third nation for military purposes). home...” Atoll, 1981, tially dangerous amounts of radiation; and b) knew as early as 1974 that seri- ous questions existed as to the atoll'’s safety.” MAY Bikini: The Marshall Islands government confirms that it was approached by the Japanese government about the possi- bility of using Bikini to store nuclear "The United States told us in i978, when we were moved from Sikini a second time, that it would ‘undertake a program for the permanent rehabilitation of Kili.’ No action has been taken in over two years to make Kili a permanent Senator Henchi Balos, though it a) allowed the Bikinians to remain at the atoll and receive poten- Bikin. Bikini representatives, not ofwaste. ficially notified of the discussions, express "shock" ac the proposal. Enewetak: Enewetak leaders petition the United Nations Trusteeship Council to continue the Trusteeship arrangement with che U.S. after the agreement has been terminated for the rest of Micronesia. MARCH Kwajalein: Senator Imada Kabvwa, a Kwajalein landowner, criticizes the <raft Missile Range agreement because if contains ‘no language about how we are going to-be treated as people.’ Kabua states that Kwajalein landowners were not included in the negotiations and he is “eoncerned that there may be 30 nore years of treatment as second class ceople in our homeland, with one standard of niving tor the Americans wno live on Kwajalein and another for the Marshallese community on Ebeve.” Enewetak: Approximately 100 Enewetak people return to Ujelang after living on Enewetak since October. They cite lack of coconuts and other fresh fruits available, nothing to do on Enewetak and fear of remaining radiation on the U.S.ARMY MEN CONSTRUCTING DOME ON RUNIT ISLAND, ENEWETAK; PAPER RESPIRATORS ARE WORN TO PREVENT INHALATION OF PLUTONIUM PARTICLES. Defense Nuclear Agency Photo. island. bikini: The Bikinians file a class action suit against che U.S. government seeking $450 million in compensation. The suic charges, among other things, that the U.S. “breached its fiduciary obligations to the Rikinianms by failing from 1972 to 1978 to conduct a choroush radiological survey of S3ikini...even =i JUNE Kwajalein: A U.S. Districe Court judge, in response to Kwajalein resident Kinoj Mawilon's lawsuit seeking a court order stopping the U.S. Army's “search and seizure’ policy against Marshallese, rules in favor of the Arty, noting that the “base commander has in- (continued on page 39)