DikKiniexes.sue U.0. tOreturn By GERALD KATO. Advertiser Staff Writer . -" ts The people of Bikini at sDSeAREe wz theDY$eseesi as pa bs » >yr? er Miner bs:ah? being used as a nuclear -« testing ground, have filed woke a massive lawsuit against “' (SZ/TT/OT ~ NILHTIAG AUVLS ATAIONOH) . ment Administration to ‘furnish technical assist- 4 *£ ance and facilities. e Complete aerial radiological surveys of the _. Bikini and other northern . Marshall atolls to draw conclusions on the risks posed by radiation. This ‘41 would be part of the compliance with the National _ Environmental Policy Attorney George M., Allen of the Micronesian Legal Services Corp, filed . the lawsuit on behalf of a the people of Bikini in Federal Court hereyes- terday. @Contingencyreloca- - tion of Bikini residents.. ,, @Immediate medical ’ “examinations of all those ‘who now are living on the "2 atoll, requiring the Eneri, BY Research and Develop- atoll, exiled for 30 years. while their homeland was- the U.S. Government to secure what they hope will be their final. return home. possible risks involved. - ' The suit is asking the _ Act. court to issue an order for immediate medical ' THE SUIT alleges’‘that «the people of ‘Bikini have examination of the 75 per- | sons who havereturned to the atoll, risking exposure to radiation. It also seeks . a complete radiological survey of the atoll to. “y determine the risks involved to others who may x. "ey ag 7 lost,.faith in the Atomic yy-Energy Commission and ’ .;.its successor, the Energy Research and Develop- ‘tment Administration, ’ s.which were designated to %... carry out the radiological tests. The suit says they return. THE PEOPLEof Bikini were removed after World .’.. s , never followed through * ‘with the tests. srt War IJ, whenthe United ad States decided to use the "- Pechite ye a 425-acre atoll for an atom: °:, oe adh Hetala The suit is asking that a “panel of scientific person- edie , s ys; nel be appointed.to ana-. lyze the data from radioadvertiser photo by Charles Okamyra ic testing ground.- About ,Jf givee 8 . TARRYWY OH, logical tests of the island. 23 nuclear tests were con- (eft) and his fellow.Bikintislandershave turned to the courts to expedite their return home. The court should take ducted there between 1946Miseies *mS)- Balos re Yat ‘ eer ry . : \te, ‘ ‘ attea toe, control over agency and 1958, 0 oe 4. Ghee During - that:‘time, ‘the:vee ‘Administration;; istande® “and President’ ‘said his people’ are anx- thing: to’ keep. (theirt spending and monitor the , eventual resettlement of . Ford, people were moved from jous to return to their.. promises. »-- +... + d “We've. been patiently. :" the people,the suit says. one atoll to another in the “~~” homeland but they want In effect, the sute al- to be sure that it’s safe to Marshall Islands. There . waiting up to now and it 37 COLLAPSEof the are now about 860 persons Saab . and Development :“-leges that the U.S. Gov- return. seems like nobody cares, pilin resettlement repre-. in the Bikini population, ’ Administration; James R. ernment has not kept its “All these 30 years we- so, as a result, we thought cants a classic case of bumost of whom live in Kill. . Schlesinger, secretary of promise to return the peo- . were expecting that we _ by taking action we would » reaucratic dysfunction,” A return to Bikini had defense; and Kent Friz- ple of ‘Bikini to their”. would be treated better ~ be treated better. than the suit said. been scheduled in Septem-. - a zell, acting secretary of homeland, It seeks court and yet nothing has been . that” ‘*Money is still being action to movethe reset- © done,” he said, ., ber but the Interior Dethe interior. . spent; meetings are still AMONG THE things tlement program along, partment announced that Also, Fred'M. Zeder, with the necessary radio-' * “We were promised by, _ being sought. in the suit © being held; bureaucrats the atoll was still unsafe. tor, U.S. Energy Research and Development are: _ continue to fly all over the @A bar against ‘anyone ‘northern hemisphere on .. Territories Government . going to the ‘atoll unless government expense ac_ atoll is safe to live gn.: .* that they would provide: . that person is informed, - ‘counts, but nothing is ‘Oscar: Debrum, district us everything we needed. : .in the Marshallese lan- | being done about the peoadministrator, Marshall in the suit, Henchi Balos, , They haven't done any-' guage if Kecessary, of the | ple of Bikini.’’ ” director, Office of TerritoTHE LAWSUIT names" Fries; Edward E. Johnas defendants Robert C. .ston, high commissioner Seamans Jr., administra- ‘of the Trust Territories; logical and environmental surveys to insure that the ONE OF THE plaintiffs. we the United States Govern-ment as well as the Trust.