The Community Development Projeot on Kili was terminated
some time after the typhoon,
It was not continued by the
community es far as FE know.
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Attempts by the Administration to obtain another location
for the displaced Bikinians have been abortive.
The economic difficulties of the former Bikini people
were alleviated when they were paid the sum of $325,000 by
the Government
in exchange for the use of Bikini Atoll.
interest from the trust fund,
into which $300,000 was placed
is a quaranteed income which helps the local economy.
Will become less
The
This
significant as the population increases,
as
it has since the fund was established in 1956.
Present Attitudes Toward Kili
The attitudes of Magistrate Juda,
the leader of the Kill
community, and of other leading people of the community with
whom I talked on Majuro, Kwajalein and Ebeye in connection
with the Bikini Atoll Survey,
seemed to be unchanged.
They still say that Kili is no good,
it is like a prison,
there 1s not enough food there, and the like.
tions wnich were made over a decade ago are
of the people whom I interviewed
return to Bikini to live.
the
stated that
The same objec-
still made.
they wanted
All
to
They were all very anxious about
survey and what the results would be in terms of their
being allowed to return to Bikini or not,
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