to live only on Eneu, eat no food at all from Bikini, and
maintain: a diet consisting of approximately 50% local food
from Eneu and 50% imported food.

The people have also in-

dicated that they would be willing to accept certain measure
to insure that they do not violate DOE restrictions.

soe

One

such measure should probably be the destruction of the 40

“homes on Bikini Island, which could prove to be an attractive
nuisance.

“Another possible measure might be the destruction of

the coconut trees on Bikini Island, although a decision on
this action should be postponed until there is an opportunity
to observe whether DOE restrictions are being followed.
An essential element of an Eneu resettlement program will be the establishment of a regular shipping schedule
to bring imported food to Eneu.

At a Congressional hearing

in June, 1978, when people were still living on Bikini Island,
witnesses testified that although monthly trips were scheduled
to take food to Bikini, ships called on Bikini sporatically on
because the Trust Territory Government did not have enough
ships available to service Bikini on a monthly basis.
Jendrik Leviticus, who attended the hearing representing the

people then living on Bikini, stated that
- "ships...apparently did not arrive on any- thing approaching a monthly basis, and that
caused the Bikinians to go into the interior
7 parts of the island and eat the breadfruit,

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