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. ° 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. —P 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 (continued on page 35) po: