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though he admitted it had many disadvantages, as the best available
olace to relocate the Bikinians.
In March, 1948. they were movedto
a tent camp at Kwajalein. In Septemver, the Bikinians voted to resettleon
Kili, and in November, they were finally settled on Kiliand began build-
yng a new and bigger village than
they had had on Bikini.
Last
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{Kili was without question better
# than Rongenk. But it also was smail
° yet. it had no lagoon.
£ p and,
ata, worse yet,
Soul The
¢ island was constantly poundedby tne
Pacific. Fishing was far more difficult
; could
than at Bikini. Suoply ships
Sai
: neither land food nor take awayccpra
—dried coconut, ,» the
the onlycash
omy cas crop—
p
for months at a time because of the
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passed before a snip could unload.
the civilians. A high commissioner
Was appomted by the President to
work with and through the U.S. De-
parlmentof Interior.
exploded at Bikini with tragic results.
An unpredicted wind shift after the
blast had sent the 20-miie-high cloud
_
of radioactive particles drifting in the
Matters did not improve right
away. But under pressure from tne
United Nations, the high commission-
wrong direction, across Bikini Island
and beyond. The plume stretchedt!
240 miles long and 40 miles wide.
pian to improve agriculture on kili.
danger zone.
er pushed a community development
over an area far outside therestricted
'ecation, the Trust Territory
.
Rongelap, Rorgerik and Utirik
vide a transportationlink10
Jalut 0llS,, all inhabited
by Marshallese
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and U.S. military
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munily
development preiect. Al first
the scheme prospered. moraie imroved and some thought the BikinBans might learnsometo thought
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KilicixiMlearnin (01957,
acrust (0 Kul.
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af, and
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personnel, were in
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5 year in hospitais
_In an attemptto relieve the isolaij tion, the Navy turned over a 40-feot
After that, according to Tobin, the
heart seemed to go outof the eles
The Americans and the Marshallese, evacuated andtreated in mulita-
power whaleboat to the cikinians. It
ny.
Sank in high seas in 1951.
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{over administration of Micronesia
“and the provlems of the Biximians—lo
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On March 1, 1954, test shor Bravo.
Peranent harm. No one seems to
than the first atomic bomb, had been
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