STATUNIG OF UNDLESTANDIAG onTHE PART OF THE COVERNMENT OF THE UNITED STAIES AND THE COVERNMENT OL THE TRUST TERRITORY OF THE PACIFIC ISLANDS CONCERNING THE MOVE OF THE PEGPLE OF BIKINI On August 1], 1978, ISLAND, AUGUST, 1978 the Undersecretary of the Department Interior, James A. Joseph, of the the Deputy Undersecretary, Wallace Green, and the Director of the Office of Territorial Affairs, Ruch G. Van Cleve, journeyed to Bikini Island to meet with its current residents. of chei: meecing was co convcy information on the subjece of The purpose ths forthcaming move by the people of Bikini Island to Kili Island, and to respond to questions and hicar concerns put to chem by the people of Bikini [slatd. They had carlier, on August 7, held a similar meeting with former residents of Bikini who now reside on Kili. The High Commissioner of the Trust Terricory of the Pactfic Islands, Adrian P. Winkel, had been prevented vy bad weather in Saipan from joining in the visit to Bikini Island, but he had earJier mee with che people of Bikini, as well as with other Bikinians on Kili. In 1946, the people of Bikini were removed from their atoll by the U. S. Navy in order to enable the United States to uSe the atoll for a nuclear testing program which lasted until 1958. The islanders were moved first to Rongerik, then to Kwajalein, and ultimately to Kili. 1960's, [nm the late it appeared that levels of radiation on Bikini atcll were such that the people could return to and use a number of the major islands of the atoll. Beginning in 1969, a clean-up of the atoll and a rehabilitation program was begun. In the early 1970's, anc the wihind some Bikini peopte were employed in the project Island populacion ineressed to apypiendaaiely iss in lyr. 1977, the intake of radionuclides by che people living on Piiirt In Island had increased to alarming proportions, and a major feeding programs was instituted. April, 1978 surveys showed that the feeding program had not resulted