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Honorable Richard M. Nixon
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Dear President Nixon:
This letter is written on behalf of the displaced peopleOf
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Atoll,now residing onKiliTsland, United ‘States ‘Trus
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of. thePacifictslands.Tt vsadetailed discussion
ofthe pasttrials,fears,and=
SiTiTerings of the Bikini pecple P
[wretten with intention of placing the grievances of the Bikini
people before the United States.
This letter is most emphatically
a petition for redress of the sufferings and exploitation of the
Bikini people by the United States during the last 27 years.
The suffering of the Bikini peopie began, as far as the United
States is concerned and responsible ~- on January 24, 1946.
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that date the Pentagon announced that the United St ates had se
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