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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
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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.
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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
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. 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- ’
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families wish to return. -+ ~ ter part of October,
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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,
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