HONOLULU ADVERTISER OCTOBER 11, 1975
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exiledresidents of Biki- ” that tests for radiation examination of persons
ni Island, which was left
dangers have been inadenow in risk of contaminaalmost unlivable by 12- quate, and that no plans
tion, make adequate
years of American atomic
for the future economic
studies of the is)and’s raself-sufficiency of the. dioactivity, and provide —
testing, have filed suit to
force several federal islanders have been de- ‘information to the islanagencies to comply with
veloped. .*,;. ders ih both Marshallese
resettlement agreements.
. All this; the suit claims,
and English.
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Thesuit, filed Thursday is in violation of the
The suit names President Ford, Secretary of
agreement under which
in federal court by reprethe United States adminis- Defense James Schlesingsentatives of the 860 Bikiters the Trust Territories, er, and administrators of
ni islanders, claims that a
as well as the National ‘the U.S. -Department of
partial resettlement of the
island’ was begun in 1970
without residents’ being
Environmental Policy
Act.’
The suit asks ‘that the
told of possible health
hazards due ito radioac- - ‘court limit access to the
island, provide immediate
tivity. ©.
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The ‘Suit also claims
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the Interior and the U.S., ~
Energy Research and
Development Ad ministration, formerly the Atomic
Energy Commission. «.
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