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With the Trust Territory annual budget already spread thin in
other areas of endeavor, grants from research foundations may
well be the answer to finance the research program and this
avenue of funding should be thoroughly investigated.
Yet if only for pressing home a point, the profound
implications and the moral obligation of the U.S. government
to fully rehabilitate the atoll damaged by the testing of
nuclear devices,
liberal and well-planned efforts tailored to
the future return of the Bikinians should commence at the
earliest possible
time.
Not only is the complete rehabilit-
ation of Bikinl by the U.S.
justified in the eyes of world
Opinion, a responsibility remains to redress an injusticc toa
handful of displaced poeple.
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