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SETER Te COLEMAN VILL ACCOMPARY AMBASSADOR WILLIAMS ON HIS TRIP
THROUGr, THE EASTERI: DISTRICTS» ENDING IN MAJURO WHERE HE WILL BEGIN
MEETINGS “YITP ENIWETCKESE AT THE DISTRICT CENTER.

COLEMAN ALSO PLANS

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“RERT THE AGRICULTURAL REHABILITATION OF THAT FORMER ATOMIC

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WILL BE Is.VITEC To BIKINI TO CSSERVE THE REHABILITATION PROGRAM THERE
IN ACTION, He SAIC FURTHER THAT THE PECPLE OF ENIWETOK WILL BE
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CONSULTED AT EVERY STEP ALONG THE WAY IN THE REHABILITATION PROGRAM...
DISTAL DEGRUM SAID THAT HE WAS DEEPLY GRATEFUL TO THE HIGH COM-

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MISSTONER AND AMBASSADOR WILLIAMS FOR THEIR LONG AND HARD EFFORTS TO
EXPEDITE THE RETURI: GF THE ATOLL TO THE PEOPLE. HE SAID HE LOOKED
FORWARD TO HEETING wITH DEPUTY HICOM COLEMAN LATER IN THE WEEK AND
TS BEGINING THE PLAANING FOR THE REVERSION OF ENIWETOK TO THE TRUST
TERRITORY SO THAT THE REHABILITATION PROGRAM COULD GET UNDERWAY.

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TATION PF SCEDURES THAT HAVE 3EEN USED AT BIKINIe "AS AN INITIAL
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STEP + THE AMNOUNCENERT SAID» "THE UeSe PLANS TO COMMENCE THE survey Sf »
CF THE ATOLL PROBABLY LATE THIS SUMMER. THE CLEANUP AND REHABILITA~
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| SIUTHEASTER PART OF THE ATOLL» WILL RECEIVE FIRST PRICRITYs"

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COMPLETIi3 SOME RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT TESTING ON THE ATOLL WHICH

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