Wersgall them. (The trust fund pays approximately $40 per month to each Bikinian, and the onetime $1.4 million payment will amount to $1.520 per person.) Nevertheless. the bigger questions remain unanswered. The Bikinians. most of whom have resided on Kili Island for over 30 years. must be resettled. but there are no suitable locations available outside their aroll. Land in the Marshalls is scarce, and there is no- where the Bikinians could resettle without being squatters on someone else's land. Most of the Bikinians, however, reject the possibility of moving out of the Marshall Islands aret (say, to Hawaii), because they fear they would lose their Marshallese identity and cultural heritage. One possible compromise is Wake Atoll, annexed by the United Scates in 1899 bur kinians propose to settle there using a sys- tem devised by the people of Enewetak in the mid-1970s, when they, like the Bikinians. were living temporarily on another atoll. When the southern islands of Enewetak were ready for habitation, the people had to decide who would move. Since the whole population could not move at once. the people set up a rotation system by which a certain percentage of the population moved to Enewetak for six months. After six months these people left and were replaced by an- other group. This rotation program is work- ing successfully today. The Bikinians have proposed to apply it to Eneu Island. If the system is implemented. only part of the Bikinian population could be accom- modated on Eneu at any given time: the remainder would stay where they are living Islands. Located some 425 miles north of Bikini. Wake has no indigenous population. It has verylittle rainfall and virtually none now. Most of the Bikinians——550, or about 60 per cent—are living on Kili, and the rest live on other atolls in the Marshalls. Some Bikinians may wish to live permanently on Kili or elsewhere without going back to Eneu. found throughour the rest of the Marshall Islands, but it does have one very attractive Snags and Squabbles considered by some to be part of the Marshall of the life-sustaining vegetation commonly feature for the Bikintans—che American military. The Bikinians’ desire to be looked after by the Unired States may seem ironic, bur it is It has always been assumed that the Biki- nians would live temporarily on Kili until understandable. The U.S. military removed they could return to Bikini. If DOE projections are correct, a return to Bikini Island is at least several generations away. so the Jook anxiously to the Unired Srates ro con- vide continued support for people on Kili. The Bikinian community on Kili will require them from Bikini in 1946. The Bikinians have not yet been given a home. so they tinuc to care rorthem. They view Wake asa pocket of continuing U.S. presence in the region. and in 1979 they asked that it be considered as a possible resettlement site. The Pentagon. however. has flatly refused to permit them to settle there. Bikini resettlement program should pro- permanent housing: a short airstrip; and improved ocean access—either a dock. a deeper channel, or a ferry stationed at the nearest atoll, 40 miles away. Resettlement on Eneu, which the Bikini- ans have proposed to Congress and the ad- Even more attractive to the Bikinians than Wake is Eneu, an island five miles south of Bikini in Bikini Atoll. Eneu is three times the size of Kili, it provides a calm lagoon for fishing, and it is equipped with an airstrip built for the weapons testing program. Since it is uncertain whether Eneu can handle a large number of people, the Bi- sure that the people do not go five miles north to eat the food on Bikini Island? Whowill take charge of the program. and who will insure that ships arrive with imported food at Eneu on a regular basis? 92. 93. ministration, is not withour pitfalls. Is the island safe for habitation? If it is, how will a rotation program be enforced? Who will in-