os LO Tern DEERTYEE CALICS | SUC Ue! RENEEot LO, ele . x rein sped By GERALD KATO nest, “PAREDSC ree es Advertiser Staff Writer The people of Bikini atoll, exiled for 30 years while their homeland was being used as a nuclear . testing ground, have filed gee As Poe ~ eQpe on ~¥ Sr eet @ Contingencyrelocation of Bikinis residents. eJmmediate medical examinations of all those who now are living on the aus, requiring the Energy Research and Develop ment Administration to furnish technical assistance and facilities. e Complete aerial radio- a massive lawsuit against“:* the U.S. Government to. secure what they hope *will be their final return home. logica: surveys of the Bikini and other northern Marshall atolls to draw eoneclus.ens om the rosks Attorney George M, Allen of the Micronesian Legal Services Corp fllec he lawsuit on behalf the people of Bikini in edeia: Cource here yes- posed by radiation. This ta NGiats Se part ul the om podghce woh the Nauuna, ierday The suit la asking the kvayrronnmental THE SUTT aneges that ate peoye Pemuite have (OSt faith Atomic Research aud Develap ment Admonistration Rach Were desixnated 7 carry out the radivivgice cS 2u@ oaudik Le THE PEOPLE uw Sintin SavYS PNey tye wirtie fle 6 ASen were removed after Worid rhe sails addKing Gidt a War il when the Lnited States decided to use the 425 acre ato. for an atom- panel of scientific personnei be appointed to ana- ic testing ground. About Advert ser ubctu Oy Cat ea Cratiyen 23 nuclear tests were con- THE LAWSUIT names as defendants Robert C. Seamans Jr., administrator, U.S. Energy Re search and Development ine its suecessor, the Energy Jeturn During that time, the ai Energy Commission and waved w vihers woe may ouple were moved from one atoll to another in the Murshall Islands. There are now about 860 persons in the Bikini population, most of whom Live in Kili. A returm to Bikini had been scheduled in September but the Interlor Department announced that the atoll was still unsafe. Paliee Soak ourt ta issue an order for voamediate medica: evamination of the 75 nen sons who have returned to che atoll, risking exposure to radiation. It also seeds a complete radiological survey of ¢ne atoli to determine the rigks in- wucted there between 146 and 1958. possible risks involved. Balos (eft) and his fellow Bikini islanders have turned io the courts to expedite their return home. Administration; J, Stanley, William director, Pacific Area Support Office, U.S. Energy Research and Development Aamuinistration; James R. Schlesinger, secretary of defense: and Kent Frizzell, acting sicretary of the interior, Also, Cred M. Zeder, director, Office of Teri ito ries; Edward E. John ston, high commissioner of the Trust Territories; Oscar Debrum, district administrator, Marshall Islands; Ford. and President In effect, the suit al- leges that the U.S. Gov- said his people are amxious to return to their homeland but they want to be sure that it’s safe lo return. ermment has not kept its promise to return the people of Bikini to their hnome'and. It seeks court action to move the resetUement program along, with the necessary radiological and environmental surveys to insure that the atoll is safe to live on. the United States Government as weil as the Trust Territones Government ONE OF THE plaintiffs in the suit, Henchi Balos, us everything we needed. They haven't done any- “All these 30 years we were expecting that we would be treated better and yet nothing has been done," he said. “We were promised by that they would provide Thin to keep their promises. “We've been patiently waiting up to now and it seems like nobody cares, so, as a result, we thought by taking action we would be treated better than that.”’ - AMONG THE things being sought in the suit are @A bar against anyone going to the atoll unless that person is informed, in the Marshallese !an- guage if fiecessary, of the vyre the data from radio‘ sal testy of the ostand Phe court should take control over agency spending and monitor the eventual resetiiement of the people, the suit says. THE COLLAPSE of the Bikini resettiement represents a Classic case of bureaucratic dysfunction,’ the suit said “Money ts still being spent; meetings are sti being heid; bureaucrats continue to fy ali over the northern hemisphere on government expense ac- counts, but nothing is being done about the peo ple of Bikini.”