Washinetos Post Stati Writer tivitles. Joe Deal, of Energy's safety branch aald, “There were fin coconuts to tes and wo foodstulf yrowibg of Interior's Office of Territorial Ac The 139 Marshallese living on kint Island will have to leave thele home atoll withio three months and not return for at least 30 years De cause of radiatton remaining from 1944 US. hydrogen bomb test, House Appropriations subcommittee was told yesterday. fn earher plan to move them fro Bikini Island to Eneu, another island in the atoll, was dropped, the subcom mittee was told, because Eneu's coco outs were showing radivactisity re inss five to six times higher than gav ers:ment eclentists had previously pected. Aca result, Interlor Department o fie’ Is said yesterday, they could not say where the Bikini residents wou eventually end up. The people now living on Bikint were the fist ones to return after 1960 determination by the Atomic En erey Commission that the stall was tale from radiatién conta mination. From 1946 through 1968 it had bee the site of 23 U.S. nuclear weapons tests. Sidney Chairman Subcommittee Yates (1 AL) shed witnesses from th Departments of Interior and Energy, “Whs were these people allowed to co Back?” “There was no hint In 1969 that there would be e@ problem with coco buts, vevetahles and water,” he was told by Ruth G. Van Cleve, direct . By Walter Pincus WASTINGION POST truments available used the beat that tlme.” Deal outlined to the subcomnilttes medical examination how last mon showed the Bikini residents had taken radicaclive cesium into their bodies at ce the accepted US. levels up to neral population. tandard for Dr. Walter Wy n, also of DON, told that the 139 men, the subcomm en who have been women and for the past several living on wits radleactive cocoears and e would have to foods buts and undergo medica <antnalions for the erhaps the rest of next year thetr lives to ke » track of the radiohave Invested. they active matter ding of hush concen: It was the naclive ecsium and trations of US. stardands—ia trontium—abov Bikint residents bast of the bodies vinced Interior offimonth that cials the peuple h d to be moved. the subcommittee Van Cleve @ tests [iast month} hat althoug do not reves an tinnestiate dancer? he atoll should be the move ys—the time nerded made within 90 place to hve and rary ten a pick lo build plywood ho mes there with aluminum roufs. nkel, hich commis. Adrian US. Trott Territory, sioner of mitlee he would My to told the s ce and tell the resiBikint next dents “the need ‘or the move and deterroloe their prefe rences for « place to scttle.” At that po t, Rep. Frank Evans (Dquestion of what Colo.) raised they did not want to would be done leave Wikin holce but to require “We have n Winkel responded, them to mov The high commissioner added, how- kini kept eating coconuts after they had becn warned they were dangerous and supplicd with other food and water from outside the island. Oscar DeBrum, the district repre sentative of Uhe Trust Territory government said, “Coconuts are treasured by the peopie. They would diink coconut milk even in the face of the warnings” DeBrum then noted that when the Medical team acrived Jast month on Bikini, the people offered them the radioactive coconuts as a sign of friendabip. “Either move the people or cut down the coconut trees,” DeBrum suggested. Representatives of the approximately 400 furmer Bikini people who now live on Kuli Island told the aubcommittce “we see ourselves as the victims of buresucratio incompetence” it was questioning by the Kil group about the safety of Bikint four ycars avo that first raised the possibility that dangerous radiation levels might still exist on the istand. At the ilme, U.S. officials were pre paring to return the eutire group to Ekink The Kili spokesman, Tomaki Juda,reminded the subcomnuttce that ia’ 1046, a Navy officer told the Bikinians* “it they had to leave their atell eo the older people move because they etill might prefer lo remain, Two sging Marshallese who own Major pieces of land on Bikuni Island are patriarchs of the two family groups that make up most of the people now living on the island. Matshall Islanders who attended mecting yesterday's subcommittee were not sure Winkel could convince them to Icave, Illustrative of the problem was the exchange that took place wien a question was askéd why the people on Bi- ever, that it might be difficult to make to our Promised Land” a : .« . for 32 years and we will pever return. and have wandered through the ocean’ kind and to cnd all world wars” The officer compared the Bikinians “to the childien of Israel whom the. Lord saved from their enemy and Jed. into the Promised Land.” “We are.” Juda said, "sadly mora: akin to the Children of Istael when they left Egypt and wandered throuch? the desert for 4 scars. We left Bikint: could be ud for the good ot ma Must Quit Island for at Least 3 0 Years, Hill Told Tuesday, Mey 23, 1978 Bikinians Al0