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suaLk you for your reply to our. Levicrs concerning the people of

their desire to return to Bikini o
We Hepe the information you rceetved Loom the Offieo of Torrie
csscd you as to the Killi problem. Dat as far as lope ark
scorned, there wos nothing new in what they had to say. In
ce, we have infosmation that may make more cloar the picture of these

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people as we sec it.

wo Want 0G reomphasize the Lazoon provlen cince this is the crux

ns SLWEUIOn, oul will not So inte any celails except to suy

shat our peeve us letvers give examples.
vere we gould Like to“seake come coments and observations concerning

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y choose to live on Megit? We whink this makes a big differS ‘to people's obtuse’ anc their accopbtance of the siiLUEBTLON o
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Honeys cach person on Killi will receive cil of $12, Sa us if we

ound impertinent, but with the cost of kerosenc at $1 a gallon we and
ihe Killi people are not very immresscd. Also the payment of this money Gid not begin until 1957, ten years after they wore removed from Dikint.
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