1978 continued
NOVEMBER Kwajalein: Ebeye Public Works
Director, Ching Yee, writes to the High
Commissioner requesting immediate ac-
tion be taken to upgrade the rapidly
deteriorating Ebeye sewer system.
1979 MAY Kwajalein:
Trust Territory
headquarters does not respond to the
November request for help and the en-
tire sewer system on Ebeye collapses. |
Senator Imada Kabua, a resident of
Ebeye, reports “when I flush my toilet,
waste water gushes into my sink."
Bikini: Representatives of the Bikinians travel to Hawaii and meet with state
government officials to discuss the possibility of their relocating the entire
Bikini community on the island of Hawaii. Later, the Bikinians visit Wake
and Midway islands as well as other is-
lands in the Marshalls seeking an alternative to Kili. The search proves
unfruitful.
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JULY Kwajalein: Hundreds of Kwajalein
Island, Mid-Corridor and Roi Namur land-
owners occupy their off limits islands
in the missile range, protesting unlivable conditions on Ebeye.
Kwajalein: The Roi Namur people were
given no compensation when they were
relocated. As the occupation of Roi
Namur begins, the Marshallese, led by
Senators Imada Kabua and Jolle Lojkar,
_ are confronted as they land on the
MORE THAN 8,000 MARSHALLESE LIVE
ON TINY 78-ACRE EBEYE ISLAND;
KWAJALEIN ISLAND, THREE MILES
AWAY,
IS
AT THE TOP OF THE PHOTO.
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SEPTEMBER kwajalein: Kwajalein Atoll
landowners sign a one-year lease apreement with the U.S. providing them with
$9.9 million in compensation.
Enewetak: The massive 370-foot wide concrete dome covering the plutonium contaminated soil and other d«ebris is comoletec on Runit Island.
Runit will be
off limits forever.
beach by American security guards. Kabua is clubbed by a security guard andsustains a five-inch bruise on his ribs. Enewetak: The DOE publishes (in both
Marshallese and English) a full color
No further incidents occur; the two
week occupation ends when the U.S.
information booklct entitled "The Enewetak Atoll Today,"' about the radioagrees to renegotiate the 1964 Kwajalein Island lease and to provide compensation to the people of Roi Namur.
logical status of the atol]].
It is
criticized by Marshallese from dif-
Bikini:
mize the potential
After reviewing the results of
the aerial radiological survey of Biki-
ni,
ferent islands as attempting to minihazards tothe
people if they return.
an Interior Department representa-
tive states: "...The new data reaffirm-
ed that Bikini Island could not be
used by the people of Bikini for at
least the next 30 years and possibly
the next 60 years....The island of Eneu
must be placed off limits...for at
least another 20-25 years."
Enewetak: Two Brookhaven National Laboratory scientists, Drs. Michael
Bender and Bertrand Brill, hired by
Micronesian Lepal Services to advise
the Enewetak people, state in a meet-
ing with the Enewetakese that a return
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