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742
Vrnitsi
vit Feturn
States.
At
the
time
of the move,
we were
promised
if our islance wnen the need for it as a testing site
znisi and when resiiuel radioactivity no longer constituted a
zl
=n li-i, and prior thereto, although we occasionally
*
purinasei importsi items, we primarily relied upon the resources
oP Sixini
Avril ang ivs lagoon for the satisfaction of all our
materiaio neeis.
We were also able to produce copra for export
”
To previce us with funds for those imported items we did purchase.
ALIADUZR Tar standard of living may have been low when measured
deg
oY Une terms identified with "Western" or modern civilization,
“We cere in tne mein economically self-sufficient and not URED Y |
eent the land erea of 3ikini Atoll and encloses a lagoon of ae
ad wae
than cne-cu2erver the erea of the lagoon at Bikini Atoll.
THe.
live-susteining 2z220onmus calms and pandanus on Rongerik atoll‘vere ,.
7a gh
= arrivet, wtinsideratliy less productive than those on Bikind: Atoll,
lazten of Ringerix were
oP tne sre2ies cl
3Attll, we
markedly inferior toa those of Bikini.
re
lish we commonly ate at. BLkini proved to.-be-‘toxic
a3 2 result
cf the inadecuate food supplies at Rongerik |
“ere eventuslly reduced to a condition of near-starvation.
ly li-i,
the military governzent of the Trust Territory sent
gist to Rongevik Atoll to investigate the
giraicvion: thers.
He renorted correctly that we had been cutting
down tne young palm cvrees in order 72 eat the heart-of-palm- (the