[2 742 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