x a , i s t t ‘ ' ‘ 1 t ‘ , ‘ 2 j . f ‘ , » t ' ? h: y & pay uep, .? _¢ tos 5, “4 ond» ro '. ) } 4 ‘ ative “a 9%xy 4 a t fo,ade t 4 a ve UNFIT PARADISE Jeladrik Jakeo strolls the beach at Bikini with Carlton, one of his seven children. They face Times pho pital IelenclersLose a 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 . er Oe Oe cf 5 *’, ane . : oe From tne front porch of his concrete hiocy Pouse overlooxing Bikini Tegaen seid man recaued the long S pele cen separiure and return. t | 2 aC oy ain to yu 2 we ae ae pom pan at . TN eon 3 : tt ae ge Continued from First Page ai tt es & | " 7 MBr Sans Fr. 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 skat tre arestianer “Our attitude must have been that we, at the cost of several thousand American lives; took the Marshails . Wok this whole area of the Paci- Seco RS fie ney of the Pacific Trust Territory's Marshall Islands Distnet. was oan : here ee | a ate Re yt eenesfFo.ca teeninSta anid a a meenAeoe: fic from the Japanese. And... part Bartse Pinars) are ast bt Prown Pr. pie vard cacans, that hae head topped ta Haw crect of it was the atatune, Well they (the owas Tho eos gerd thar Mh AE act move ‘om eff somep ri RADIOACTIVE BREW—Jeladrk Jaeko checks on sop where he jets it ferment for severcl Cays to procu mildiy cleohinic beverqae Althouch tre cocenuts ar