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to our Promised Land."

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kind and to end
all
‘wor
ld wars.”
:
The officer compared
the Bikinians
“lo the children of
Israel
who
m
the.
Lord saved from thei
r enemy and led
into the Promised Lan
d”
‘
“We are.” Juda Said
, “sadly mote:
akin to the Children
of Israel when
they lett Egypt end
wandered throuch:
the desert for 40 year
s. We loft Bikint:
and have wandered
through the ocean:
for 32 years and we
will never return:

y had to teave thei
‘could be used for the r atoll so “it
good of man

The Kill spokesman
, Tomakj Juda,Feminided the sub
commitice that in
1946, a Navy officer
told the Bikinians+
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Bikinians Must
By Walter Pincus

Weashineion Post
State Writer

ilable
that time.”
The 139 Marsha
The high commissioner
llese
adde
d,
liv
how
ing
on
kint Island
kini
BI.
Dea
kept eating coconu
l outlined to the sub
ever, that it mipht be
ts after they
committee
difficult to make
how Tact month's med
down the coconut tree
had been warned the
the older People
ical examination
s," DeBrum sug.
y were danger
move bec
showed the Bikini res
ous
aus
e
they
gest
ed.
and supplicd wit
idents had taken
still might prefer
h other fvo
to remain
Tadioa
cti
d
,
and
ve
ces
ium
int
Repr
o
esen
their bodies at
water from outside
tatives of the
Two aging Marsha
levels up to twice
msiau os hy
approxi.
the island.
llese who own
the accepted U.S,
drogen bomb
mately 400
Osc
for
Maj
ar
mer
sta
te
or
DeB
st
Biki
nda
piec
rum
,
ni people who
rd
for
es
,
the
the
of
feneral population.
land on Bikint Isla
district Tepre
nd
now live on Kili Ista
are patriarchs of
Dr. Walter Wyzen,
sentative of the Tru
nd told the subalso of
the two
st Ter
DO
tit
F,
ory
fami
tol
gov.
ly
d
Rro
ups
ern
the subcommities
commitice “we see
ment said, “Coconuts
that make Up mos
that the 139 men
t of the Peoours
are treasured
ple now Itving on
,
women and childr
by the People. The
vicims of bureaucr elves as the
the island.
en who have been
y would drink coco
atic incompe.
Mar
living on Bikint
sha
nut
ten
ll
mil
ce"
Isla
k
eve
nder
n
s)
In the
for
who
the
fac
e
pas
atl
of
t
the
end
sev
ed
war
yest
era
n.
erdav's subcommit
l
years and eating its
ings"
It was Questioning by
ice
radiovactlyve enco.
the Kili Rroup
were hot sure Win
about the safety of
buls and other foo
DeBrum then noted
kel could convin
Bikint four years
ds Would hav
that when
ce
the
the
e
to
m
toIc
undereye medical exi
ave
ako
i
.
that
first
atrived last
raised the Possibility
minations for the
Illustrative of
Bikini, the People
that dangerous radiatio
Next: year and per
offered the
n leve might
hap
ls
m
the
exc
rahan
ye
dhoa
still
ctive Coconuts as
that took Place whe
cxist on the Island.
ther lives to ker p tra s the rest of
a sign of
n a quesck of the
frie
rad
lion
nd.
io.
w
ahip
At
active matter
.
the
time, US. offic als wer
the
y
hav
e
Inv
AS 4a result, Int
est
e pre
ed,
paring to return the
Either move the
It was the findin
erfor Departmen
entire group to
g of hish concen.
t ot.
people or cut
ficials said yester
Ekint
tra
tio
day
ns
,
of
the
rad
y
ioa
cou
ctive cecnm and
ld not
say
whe
re
the
str
Bikini residents
ontium—above US.
would
tarlids—in
eve
ntu
all
y
end
the
Up.
bodies of the Bikini
residents Jast
The peopte no
month that convin
w living on
ced
Bik
Interlor offi.
int
elals the peuple had
to be moved.
Van Cleve told the
subrommit
tee
that although “the
tests [ast month]
fro
m
do
not
rad
iat
rev
ion
eal
an lonediate daneee
contamination.
From 1946 throuc
™
the move from the
h 1968 jt had bee
atull should be
n
the site of 23 US.
ma
de within 90 days —th
nuclear Weapons
e time ner ded
test
s,
to
pic
k
a femporary plice
to live and
Subcommittee
build plywood hom
Chairman
es there with aluSidney
Yates (D IN.) ash
minu
m
roo
ed
fs.
wit
nes
ses
from
the
Departments of
Adr
ian Pp, Winkel, hic
Interior and Ene
h commis.
rgy,
Why were these
sioner of the US
People
all
,
Trwat Territory,
owe
d
to
co
ek?”
told the subcommit
tee he would Ny to
“There was no
Bikini next week
hint In 1969 tha
and tell
the
t
here would be e
den
ts
“th
e need for the move and resp.
bro
ble
m
wit
h
coc
o.
deuls,
vev
termine their pre
eta
ble
s
and
water,” he was
ferences for a pla
old by Ruth c. Van
ce
to settle."
Cleve, director
' Interior's Off
ice
of
Tertitorial Ac.
vitles,
.
Joe Deal, of Energy
's saf
ety
bra
nc
leave Biking,
Id. “There were fo
coconuts
to
te
“We
‘d Wo foodatult
have no cholce but
krowilng ... We
to require
them to move," Win
kel responce,

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