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UNFIT PARADISE Jeladrik Jakeo strolls the beach at Bikini with Carlton, one of his seven children. They face
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Penere Was near Starvation, mucn pri-
vanion. Trere was shutting from one
alien isiaria to another and another
and vel a.cther. There was scattering
ef famcy and fmends, disiacation,
neariy total disruption of a hitherto
quiet. untroubied wayoflife.
“Mavbe there were some times
when I was not unhappy,” he admitted. “But... every day I remembered Bikim. And everyday I wanted
to come back because it is my homeland, because Bikim is a beautiful
place.”
He was quiet, deferentially polite.
Butat last. in reply to the stranger's
question, Andrew dropped the emotional veil sughtly.
How. the stranger asked, will he
react when he leaves Bikini once
agcin and forever?
“| will weep.” he said. “I will feel
anger. . .}] «+l not go. I will sit here.
Thev will have to carry me away.”
He said he also believed some of
the others would do the sameashe,
feel the same as he.
And how. after all that had happened to mm and his people since
ny!
geographically, teo. The idea of Operation Crossroads was to see what the
atomic bomo would do to a naval
fieet. The three A-bombs of World
War I] nad oecn exp:caca in the New
Mexico uesert and over the Japanese
clues of Hirosnima and Nagasaki.
Other sites were considered. But
according to Crossrcads historian
Neal Hines. “Bikini fuifilted all the
conditions of climate andisolation.It
was... 2,000 mules west southwest
of Honolulu... but it also was accessible. ... Its inhabitants, who
then numbered 162, could be moved
to anotheratoll.”
(Most other sources say the populauion then was 166. Since then there
has been a population explosion. Today &60 persons claim land rights in
Bikini Atoll—140 nowliving on Bikini
Island. 450 on Kili, and the others
scattered throughout the Marshalls.)
There was concern on the part of
the U.S.fishing industry that the test
blasts might hurt the nch commercial
fishing grounds. There also were so
many complaints from animal lovers
that plans to use dogs as test animals
were canceled. But there 1s no recorded protest against removing the
Bikinians from their ancestral homeland.
“In retrospect ... you'd have to
Say the removal was the ‘right of the
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conqueror,’ ” said Jim Winn, a trans-
planted Kansan whois district attor-
‘You'd have to say
the removal was the
right of tne conqueror.’
1916. aid ne feel now about the
Americans?
he cdi lnucied perhane ew Darrassec te saestion uns by tre
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“Our attitude must have been that
we, at the cost of several thousand
American lives; took the Marshails
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