RESETTLEMENT OF PEOPLE 1978 continued nounces plans to move the people from Peter Rosenblatt, agrees to renegotiate U.S. payments for use of Kwajalein, end- Bikini “within 75 to 90 days." ing the occupation of the Mid-Corridor JULY Kili: Department of Interior offiIslands. cial John DeYoung describes Kili IsAPRIL Kwajalein: A Trust Territoy study, land's school, community facilities and homes as being "awfully shabby." Be“Ebeye Redevelopment, Gugeegue and Carlson Development" again reveals secause Kili has been considered the Birious public health hazards on Ebeye: kinians temporary home since 1948, lit@ 8,000 people live on just 66 acres, tle money has been appropriated for upgiving it an extrapolated population keep and maintenance of houses, or for density of 65,000 people per square building permanent community facilities. mile (compared to Washington, D.C. with 12,400 per square mile); SEPTEMBER Bikini: Trust Territory offi@Most of the housing is substandard cials arrive at Bikini to re-evacuate and deteriorating; the 139 people living on the atoll. @ 36% of the available work force is unemployed; ®More than 50% of the people are under 14 years old; Bikini: The Northern Marshalls radiological survey, forced by the Bikinians' 1975 lawsuit, is finally begun, after @ The Ebeye Hospital is "in poor con- the people are relocated from Bikini. dition" and "equipment, supplies and Kwajalein: An annual Interior Depart- staffing are also major problems...; ment report states: "No segregation... @The electrical power plant "sys- tem is severely limited and results in numerous brownouts...." Kwajalein: The American population on Kwajalein Island is estimatej at 3,000. The amenities provided for the Americans include air conditioned housing, hospital staffed by seven medical doctors, a high school, tennis and handball courts, swimming pools, parks, a golf course, bowling alley, teen club and free movies. a Kwajalein: Ebeye has one basket ball court and a baseball field, and no “other recreational facilities. To gain access to Kwajalein, Marshallese must obtain a visitors pass issued in limit- ed numbers for business purposes, such as going to the airport, bank or Trust Territory office. Bikini: Medical examinations reveal radiation levels in many of the 139 people on Bikini well above the U.S. maxi- mum ‘permissible” level. MAY Bikini: Interior Department of fi- cials describe the 75% increase in radioactive cesium found in the people as “incredible.” Interior Department an- 9002b2b exists in the Trust Territory in either the public or the non-publie schools. Children of any race, religion or color may attend—any school...in the Trust Territory." Marshallese living on Ebeye cannot send their children to high school on Kwajalein, however, even though Ebeye doesn't have one. “On July 4th, 1976, only a matter of hours after T.T.Acting High Commissioner Peter Coleman had finished telling the United Nations Trusteeship Council there was no Segregation at Kwajalein (a statement he would not dare make qn Ebeye), the command of Kwajalein Missile Range celebrated the Americon Bicentennial by closing Kwajalein Island to any Marshallese «.-SO American Independence was celebrated at Kwajalein Atoll by enforcement of all out and total segregation.” Congress of Micronesia Representative Ataji Balos, July, 1976. (continued on page 33)