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STATEMENT OF HIGH COMMISSIONER ADRIAN P. WINKEL BEFORE THE
INTERIOR AND RELATED AGENCIES SUBCOMMITTEE,
COMMITTEE ON
APPROPRIATIONS, HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, CONCERNING
RESETTLEMENT OF THE PEOPLE OF BIKINI, MAY 22, 1978
ntinues
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Mr. Chairman, Members of the Committee:
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The preceding statements of Mrs. Van Cleve and the
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presentation of the Department of Energy clearly demonstrate
weed to
he same
the dilemma we face in dealing with the immediate and longer-
; danger
magni-
- poteh-
range futures of the people now living on Bikini Island.
Until last week,
it had been a reasonable presumption
based on predictions by the Department of Energy that Eneu
in the Bikini Atoll would be a satisfactory place to which
om off
the Bikini people could be moved in the immediate short-run
~ay the
period and
-o about
isn't it?
that
it would
also
serve
as a permanent
location
for the bulk of the larger group still on Kili.
We now know that this is not the case.
We thus have the necessity of a temporary move to a4
location that most likely will not be the permanent home for
these people.
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At
this pointe
let me
say that there are no uninhabited
islands or atolls on which these people might make a permanent settlement.
Uninhabited islands in the Marshalls are
uninhabited because they are incapable of sustaining human
life to any extent, particularly the numbers of people we are
on Kih
ussioner
made a
fit will
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talking about.
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