sth et, thas snl ic nliattnaing siniestagenar atin though he admitted it had many dis- advantages, as the best available olace to relocate the Bixinians. In March, 1948, they were movedto 2 tent camp at Kwajalein. In Septem- ber, the Bikinians voted to resettle on Kili, and in November, they werefinally settled on Kili and began building a new and bigger village than they had had on Bikini. af MeeAbe areneeae et «ctl My ate? Kili was without question better than Rongerik. But it also was smail and, worse yet, it had no lagoon. The island was constantly pounded bytne Pacific. Fishing was far more dificult than at Bikin.. Supply ships could neither land food nor take awaycopra —dried coconut, the only cash crap— for months at a time because of the heavy surf. Sometimes six months passed before a simp couid unload. In an attempt to relieve the 1solation, the Navy turned over a 40-fcot power whaleboat to the Sikimans. It sank in high seas in 1951. In the same year, the Navy turned over administration of Micronesia— * and the proslems of the Bixinians—to ane "Nearer mT POT Oe oe tt atthe . btn nti the civilians. A high commissioner was aDpointed by the President to work with and through the U.S. De- partmentofInterior. exploded at Bikini with tragic results. An unpredicted wind shift after the blast had sent the 20-mile-high clou beenestablished as part of the com- of radioactive particies drifting in the wrong direction, across Bikim Is!and and teyond. The plume stretchectl 240 miles long and 40 miles wide. over an area far outside the restricted danger zone. > Rongelap. Rorgerik and Utirk atolls, all inhabited by Marshallese and U.S. military personnel, were in the path of the faliout, which in some places fluttered down like snowflakes. projects and wrecked the Jaiuit colo- shallese and~aithough it was not known until sometime lJater—23 crewmen of the Jananese fisning buat Fukurvu Maru (Lucky Dragon) were seriously irrauiated. One crewman died of complicauions. The rest spent a year in hospitais. Matters did not improve right away. But under pressure from the United Nauons, the high commuissioner pushed a community development pian to improve agriculture on Kuli. In addition, the Trust Territory turned over a copra trade boat to pro- vide a transportation link to Jalut Atoll, where a colony of Bixinians had munity development provect. At first the scheme prospered. moraie improved and some thought the Eixinans might learn to adjust to Kuli. Then, late in 1957, and early the next vear, typhcons sank the copra boat, destroyed the newagneultural ny. After that. according to Tobin. the heart seemed to go outof the exiles ——— On Marca 1. 1954, test shoc Bravo. an H-bomo 750 times more powertul than the first atem:c bomb, had been is ye mee ate eh + Twenty-eight Americans, 244 Mar- The Americans and the Marshal- lese, evacuated and treated in mulitary hospitals aimost immediately, did not seem at the time to have suffered permanent harm. No one seems to know what happened to the AmenPlease Turn to Page 7, Col. 1 i erTPP my laletidoron TEdy retort a « : wot SY : a vs tee oy?