“4 bat may ae Yo v 4> Dineen Thr Segee a testi fy HONOLULU ADVERTISER Saturday. October 18,'1975 :au aati gl sk"blocks:return:to,Bikini»: Srey Re crs Seep mmennie RES y ' KIS ‘Some 75 persons yt ‘ moved back to the atoll * because of what the witThree natives of Bikini nesses claimed was false By KAREN HORTON: Advertiser Staff Writer ; who left the atoll in 1946 . information by a doctor after the United States -_with the now-defunct picked the island ag the’ ” Atomic Energy Commissite of nuclear teats told. sion, Federal Judge Samuel P, The AEC, in a 1968 re- King yesterday they want to go back. port, said people could go , back under certain condi- However, they wan't tions. until they think it is safe A KEY purpose of the to do 80. Their appearance was "court action is to prevent part of a legal effort to warn persons who mightreturn to Bikini as perma nent residents that there is a radiation risk. Bikini was the location | of about 23 nuclear tests we Me te ~ anyone else from moving’ “suit, Oct. 9. They’ want“ “tion to the people.’" How- * NOTE, ALSO peaking the Interior” through Jelke, expressed permanently to Bikini King to order an immedi-'- ever, until completion of further ‘ate medical examination, . Department announced concern that persons studies. The Energy Re- of the persons who return- am!‘the atoll was still unsafe. . could take ships from one. search and Development ed to the atoll, riskingum BALOS TOLD. King he atoll to another and re- Administration, successor. “expoaure to radiation, -,: turn to Bikini ‘‘before the to the AEC, is still studyThey also want complete * is unwilling to take his - island was safe for them ~ jy family there ‘‘because it ing results of tests made radiological tests to to go to.”’ Plaintiffs want . at BikintinJune. » . - Six former Bikini! resi- dents, through attorney George M. Allen of the Micronesian Legal ServIces Corp., filed theirlaw-, TA ee, ene ‘is not safe. Why I take. made. ‘King to order that a warn- . A mass return to ‘Bikini them back to Bikini? I ing be posted. . %i, “ was set for last month. .” love my family..I don't : want my children to have | . Some 35 houses have been cancer, King told attorney Allen built by the U.S. Governhe would not consider ment as part of its obligaSpeaking through Marwn Mi TH issuing an order until ‘*o—--- we. shallese interpreter AusNov. 1. There probably. ston Jelke, Kessibuki, the will be some meetings bemagistrate and leader of the Bikini people, de-: tween the U.S. Attorney’ 8 scribed how the major. Office and Allen in the lat- ’ ‘ families wish to return. -+ ~ ter part of October, “eens Manns sacl Yodernlan Das dg, bbe seabichtineeeinb AL. on/ atte from 1946 through 1958.3 During that time. the peo- 4 ple were moved from one * atoll to another in the. Marshal) Islands. Most of: the 860 persons in the: Hikini population now lve ‘ on Kili Island. HENCHI BALSO; Nathan Note and Lore Kes. sibukj, three of the plaintiffs in the lawsuit, told King they want to return | to their homeland, ‘but only if it is safe, } REPOSITORY COLLECTION BOX N Dee [LAS0 Dot {WV [a3 ped — BINT = nS CORRES FOLDER DEACE ALLS. HY74/2] PS Dine at